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TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel

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Re: TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel

#281

Fun fact: back when the original Apple Watch was being developed, Apple internally produced something similar for people secretly working on it to pretend it wasn’t a new product category. It was more or less a silicon sleeve that would show a fake keyboard. I may or may not still have one 0:-)

ok that's crazy :) and super interesting! also it makes me think there must be so much secrecy, paranoia and politics within apple

any other juicy stories??

Re: TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel

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post #56

> What if sometimes you could just… leave your phone at home? With all the essentials to stay connected, tinyPod makes that actually possible. But that’s a feature of an Apple Watch, this case doesn’t impact this in any way - I already leave my phone at home like this and I don’t own this case.

One real feature: improved battery life. This might let me leave my phone in my bag and stop worrying about the watch battery.

Re: TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel

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A Kids Version of this would be great. Robust, drop and splash/dust resistent. My son would love this to listen to his audiobooks on Spotify.

Have you tried the Yoto player? Our daughter loves hers and they are pretty cheap. You can load them with your own mp3s too, which we download from BBC Sounds.

Re: TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel

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post #278

I absolutely love this, but I hate websites like this so much, especially on mobile. I’m haphazardly scrolling hitting breakpoints trying to get to content that either lags well behind my gestures to animate a device spinning around, or zips past everything I wanted to actually read. If you want to show a video, please just show a video.

Rest assured the website is as smooth as gravel on desktop too.

Almost gave myself a seizure trying to scroll down.

Re: TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel

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I absolutely love this, but I hate websites like this so much, especially on mobile. I’m haphazardly scrolling hitting breakpoints trying to get to content that either lags well behind my gestures to animate a device spinning around, or zips past everything I wanted to actually read. If you want to show a video, please just show a video.

I agree, but I also enjoy the way that they've emulated the apple website experience for product pages.

Re: TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

My issue is I want a mini with the pro features. I’d happily pay the same price as the pro. But I doubt I’m a common type of customer.

I just posted the same thing. I think there are more of us than Apple thinks, at least I like to believe that. I think Steve Jobs was in that camp as well. When the 12 mini was released I bought it and Apple sent me a survey. It seemed like have the questions were asking if I bought the mini because it was cheaper. It seemed like that was the assumption they were going with. I answered over and over again that I didn…

I'm in the same boat. Want a small phone with premium features. My hope is that the next generation of iphone SE is at least on par with the 13 mini that I currently have. Otherwise, not sure what I'll do when my mini dies since the current SE is a pretty big step down from the 13 mini.
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