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Re: TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel

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Post by rcarmo »

testfrequency wrote: post #35
compscistd wrote: post #16

One thing the Apple Watch is missing is being able to call a Lyft or Uber. Not something I do super often but it really would let me leave the phone at home more often. Also would have liked to see a little hole in the corner to thread a loop to.

Maybe an iOS shortcut could do it? Could even add inputs for address or current location… Looks like Maps lets you “request ride”, so possibly even the native maps method could work here.

Shortcuts was massively downgraded within one or two Apple-first releases (the original app was amazing, let me do local automations on the watch that included texting and API calls)

Re: TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel

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Post by rcarmo »

orenlindsey wrote: post #51
chadhutchins10 wrote: post #13

How does the scroll wheel work? Is it mechanical or it has some connection/interface with the software?

It has to be mechanical, there are no input ports on the (current) Apple Watches.

I'm sort of expecting a rubber band around the crown going down to a gear tied to the wheel.

Re: TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel

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Post by Xeyz0r »

ykl wrote: post #39

I unapologetically love this thing. It's of course very silly, and I'm sure commenters here are going to talk about all the ways that it isn't practical or that it's a niche idea, but I love whimsical silly niche hardware ideas that make it into actual hardware. I love that they put in all of the effort to figure out a mechanical linkage between the clickwheel and the digital crown! I don't think all hardware needs t…

I think I love this too! An interesting concept for enhancing the functionality and aesthetic of the Apple Watch

Re: TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel

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Post by Xeyz0r »

jsheard wrote: post #57
ykl wrote: post #39

I unapologetically love this thing. It's of course very silly, and I'm sure commenters here are going to talk about all the ways that it isn't practical or that it's a niche idea, but I love whimsical silly niche hardware ideas that make it into actual hardware. I love that they put in all of the effort to figure out a mechanical linkage between the clickwheel and the digital crown! I don't think all hardware needs t…

Funnily enough the inspiration may have come from Apple themselves, before the Watch was announced they covertly tested it in cases made to resemble an iPod knock-off. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmgFk5hT6d8

Adds a layer of authenticity and nostalgia to the product

Re: TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel

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Post by MrJagil »

PaulRobinson wrote: post #249
MrJagil wrote: post #125

I really like this product, but I have been on this journey, and will repost a comment i made to a recent thread about replacing your phone with an apple watch. — on: One year of using an Apple Watch Ultra as a phone ... I have done this as well, but with series 4. Some notes: - Apple Watch receives calls forwarded from your phone which creates a bunch of weird problems: 1) Imagine you’re at a bar and get a phone cal…

I haven't used my watch as a replacement phone, but my experience is quite different of the tech to yours. Connecting AirPods is pretty straight forward. I don't recognise the pain. I also don't think it's always necessary, yes, not every call can be on speakerphone, but you can pick up, explain you're switching to headphones if necessary, it's fine. I have AirPod Pros. The mic quality is great, even when on a busy s…

Real happy to hear this. As i said, it was series 4 and the first airpods pro and here in europe (where we sometimes lag a bit behind in features), so maybe things are different now.

Re forwarded calls: maybe i misremember, maybe it was my local carrier or maybe apple has changed things but i’m glad things have changed. Can you recieve sms too? I couldn’t and this reply corroborates my experience https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40994017

Also, if you take your watch for a run with music playing on your aipods, does your watch stop the playback once you’re back in phone range? Mine does and i hate it.

I think music and podcasts are synced through iphone too, right? If you leave your phone turned off, will watch sync everything correctly?

In other words, constant sync and connection issues was what made me ditch my watch as any sort of replacement phone.

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Post by rakoo »

ymir_e wrote: post #166

This website is impressive. It's almost more apple than apple. Are pages like this typically "storyboarded", then designed in framer (or another tool) and from there the code is generated, or how does it work? People do amazing things with pure CSS, but this seems beyond what is sensible without some sort of tool to make the job a bit easier.

I was going to rant how unusable this page is (it is) when I realized that it's just another form of content.

The web was created for providing documents, like research papers. Then it evolved into applications, like Google Maps. This kind of website is different from others: it's a movie.

Just like a movie it is expected you start at the middle and go through every single part in order until the end. You are not expected to start at the middle. You are not expected to search inside of it. You are supposed to consume it entirely from beginning to end.

I like movies because they entertain me; this website is trying to go the entertainment way and I highly dislike it. I want to understand what the thing does, how it can be used: I'm looking for information, not a pleasant time.

Re: TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel

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Post by lopis »

jonwest wrote: post #226

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.

Re: TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel

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Post by lopis »

kylebenzle wrote: post #137
euvin wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought you were making a joke about TikTok the social media app at first. I wonder how many other products were named TikTok.

It was a ver common phrase. I think its been lost to history but right before "TikTok" the phrase "tic tock" was getting popular as a way to say, "the second-by-second run down", e.g. give me the tic tock.

I believe that by the end of the century half of the most common words of the English language will have been hostilely taken over and ruined by tech companies.

Re: TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel

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Post by tasoeur »

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:-)
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