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Six years perfecting maps on watchOS

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Re: Six years perfecting maps on watchOS

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Post by kumarvvr »

thrownawaysz wrote: post #3

The fact that there is no 1st party Apple made hiking and topography map on the Apple Watch is such a failure, not even on the most expensive “made for explorers” Watch Ultra. And things like gpx import is just a mere dream It’s a lifestyle device after all but still

> there is no 1st party Apple made hiking and topography map on the Apple Watch is such a failure

I remember a time when Apple was chided for integrating functionalities of popular apps into its OS.

Apple created an incredibly awesome device, and its up to the market to make full use of its potential. Why would it be a failure for Apple to not make such an app?

Re: Six years perfecting maps on watchOS

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Post by interstice »

kumarvvr wrote: post #41
thrownawaysz wrote: post #3

The fact that there is no 1st party Apple made hiking and topography map on the Apple Watch is such a failure, not even on the most expensive “made for explorers” Watch Ultra. And things like gpx import is just a mere dream It’s a lifestyle device after all but still

> there is no 1st party Apple made hiking and topography map on the Apple Watch is such a failure I remember a time when Apple was chided for integrating functionalities of popular apps into its OS. Apple created an incredibly awesome device, and its up to the market to make full use of its potential. Why would it be a failure for Apple to not make such an app?

Because they don't allow deeper integrations maybe? I still don't have a watch face layout I like.

Re: Six years perfecting maps on watchOS

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Post by interstice »

interstice wrote: post #42
kumarvvr wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> there is no 1st party Apple made hiking and topography map on the Apple Watch is such a failure I remember a time when Apple was chided for integrating functionalities of popular apps into its OS. Apple created an incredibly awesome device, and its up to the market to make full use of its potential. Why would it be a failure for Apple to not make such an app?

Because they don't allow deeper integrations maybe? I still don't have a watch face layout I like.

Oh and while I'm here the single layer non editable menu / weird grid is also the worst. I grew up texting under the desk on a nine key and only checking after I'd selected the contact to send to. Give me that level of muscle memory again someone, anyone, please.

Re: Six years perfecting maps on watchOS

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Post by Schiendelman »

coldtea wrote: post #34
Schiendelman wrote: post #31

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I agree 100%. I ended up building myself a utility to wrangle my reminders (like keep them from getting missed/lost) instead of using a third-party app.

Can you describe that utility?

Yeah! I mean I published it on the app store, too. It does three core things: 1) Makes sure every reminder gets a date and time if it doesn't have one 2) Snowplows them ahead of you, so if you go on vacation they're still in the near future 3) Moves reminders out of the way if you accept or create a calendar event conflicting with it

It also preserves ordering when moving things (hence my snowplow approach).

Soon it'll summarize what you did that day so you can feel good about what you get done - that's coming shortly, I'm testing the feature for another few days.

There are a bunch of settings to tweak this - picking what reminder lists to include, setting a time window for when it'll reschedule things, etc.

This should link to it:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reminder-wrangler/id6759400510

Re: Six years perfecting maps on watchOS

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Post by Schiendelman »

coldtea wrote: post #37
xp84 wrote: post #35

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Nice try, Claude Code

Is that meant to be a joke? I've been on HN for over a decade. Closer to ELIZA's era than that of LLMs. I'm curious because I'm also interested in hacking the Reminders app via its API, to add some features in a side app

If you try it out, I'm curious what you'd add! I'd be happy to make improvements.

Re: Six years perfecting maps on watchOS

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Post by modeless »

interstice wrote: post #43
interstice wrote: post #42

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Because they don't allow deeper integrations maybe? I still don't have a watch face layout I like.

Oh and while I'm here the single layer non editable menu / weird grid is also the worst. I grew up texting under the desk on a nine key and only checking after I'd selected the contact to send to. Give me that level of muscle memory again someone, anyone, please.

Pebble watches are operated with physical buttons and you can definitely take advantage of muscle memory.

Re: Six years perfecting maps on watchOS

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Post by refulgentis »

kumarvvr wrote: post #41
thrownawaysz wrote: post #3

The fact that there is no 1st party Apple made hiking and topography map on the Apple Watch is such a failure, not even on the most expensive “made for explorers” Watch Ultra. And things like gpx import is just a mere dream It’s a lifestyle device after all but still

> there is no 1st party Apple made hiking and topography map on the Apple Watch is such a failure I remember a time when Apple was chided for integrating functionalities of popular apps into its OS. Apple created an incredibly awesome device, and its up to the market to make full use of its potential. Why would it be a failure for Apple to not make such an app?

That’s a somewhat obvious flattening of perspective. While it’s clever we can make both positions sound silly, it illuminates nothing while throwing shade.

Re: Six years perfecting maps on watchOS

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Post by caycep »

kumarvvr wrote: post #41
thrownawaysz wrote: post #3

The fact that there is no 1st party Apple made hiking and topography map on the Apple Watch is such a failure, not even on the most expensive “made for explorers” Watch Ultra. And things like gpx import is just a mere dream It’s a lifestyle device after all but still

> there is no 1st party Apple made hiking and topography map on the Apple Watch is such a failure I remember a time when Apple was chided for integrating functionalities of popular apps into its OS. Apple created an incredibly awesome device, and its up to the market to make full use of its potential. Why would it be a failure for Apple to not make such an app?

maybe the culture should be for them to contract with popular app makers to be "The" default app for x amount of years or such, vs sherlocking.
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