Have to resist the urge to spend $80 on a cool gadget that I will use exactly once and throw away in a drawer somewhere..
It's a piece of molded silicone.
TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel
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#112I wonder if there is a market for a spiritual iPod successor.
I've thought for a while Apple itself could probably have some pretty decent success bringing back a new generation of the iPod. There's a (somewhat) popular community of people who mod old iPods to give them ssd's, better batteries, bluetooth, better screens, etc.
Apple could make a really cool product again, and pitch it as like the "anti-phone" or "anti-social media" vibe that seems to be gaining some popularity.
I'm imagining like a weeks long battery life, large screen (but not like an iPod touch), bluetooth for wireless headphoens, ability to have more apps (basically just allowing watch apps), WiFi+GPS, maybe speakers if they're feeling bold... idk it could be cool but maybe it'd be too niche still
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#113I love the concept! I think TinyPod is an outcry over the sizes of the smartphones today. The smallest most recent iPhone you could buy was iPhone 13 mini and it was discontinued. Don't know about other brands, but from what I am seeing nothing fits the pocket anymore. There must but a niche for those who don't read or watch movies on their hand-held devices, and if the apps are well designed a smaller screen is just…
> if the apps are well designed a smaller screen is just fine.
This was the problem I ran into. They're not.
I held onto the iPhone SE for quite a while. Everything became progressively more cramped as the years went by. Some app UI controls were cut off. All sorts of web stuff was laid out funny.
While everything did _work_, I get too annoyed at knowing that I'm having a sub-par UX every time I see it.
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
I absolutely loved the page. Had a lot of fun scrolling up and down and thought it was cleverly designed. Similar, but better, than what Apple does on their own pages.
Then you’re not experiencing the bugs that some others are experiencing.
Wait until you get RSI.
Re: TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel
#115I love the concept! I think TinyPod is an outcry over the sizes of the smartphones today. The smallest most recent iPhone you could buy was iPhone 13 mini and it was discontinued. Don't know about other brands, but from what I am seeing nothing fits the pocket anymore. There must but a niche for those who don't read or watch movies on their hand-held devices, and if the apps are well designed a smaller screen is just…
Not even the pocket, all modern flagship phones are so large that I can't use them well with one hand. I'll stick with the mini till the day it does and just hope there's a better something out there by that time.
I'm hoping that Apple releases a new mini on a 3 year cadence. Maybe there wasn't enough demand to continue the line every year, but they'll bring it back occasionally?
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#116Damn... I know it won't happen, but imagine Apple building out a device in a form factor similar to this case, using the extra internal space (compared to an apple watch) for a really nice DAC + headphone jack... I'd buy it. A streaming iPod! WatchOS would need some tweaks, but really most of the software is there.
>really nice DAC
Is there a Tidal app for WatchOS?
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
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> I just think it's silly when you guys cry that modern sites don't support your decrepit charity browser. > > Clearly you took it so personally that you dug through my comment history. I look through most comment histories before responding. Because of this, I know that you are mostly reasonable on other topics. I find it interesting that you think prodding back is "crying", can you not take it as well as you deal i…
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Re: TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel
#118The device is really neat. The web site is shit. Good grief, I can't even put into words how much I hate having UI/UX like this.
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#119I’m unable to scroll this website on a stock iPhone running the latest software. It just says “Say Hello to tinyPod”. Why do people think it’s ok to hijack scrolling? You’re never going to get it right and now I have no idea what your product is even though I’m the exact target audience.
If its any consolation, their scroll hijacking is also hot garbage on desktop firefox. Granted, its a hardware company, so I'm not that upset that their web design is atrocious, but the fact that a minimal level of review would've told them this was a problem suggests to me that the product itself won't be as polished as the videos suggest.
>a hardware company
They are pseudonymous individual(s) promising a piece of molded plastic. This is marketing, not technology. As such, you'd expect them to know how to put together a website that sells.
Northrop Grumman is a hardware company.
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#120What a fun and cool idea on such a horrid web page. I am curious what it can do, but whatever is going on is illegible and busted for me. I literally couldn't read any text on the left half of the page. I managed to scroll down to a price and for what appears to be a tech toy $80 isn't the worst price, people burn more on a 3d only to make 1 toy boat that doesn't float then stuff it in a closet. EDIT - Why the roller…
Firefox for Android here, it's a strobing mess. I have to purposely and very slowly scroll and wait for frames/images(?) to load in order to get any kind of cohesive experience/information out of the site. I think the product is really neat and I love the idea, but the site is insufferable.