Turning the iPhone 6s Into a Digital Scale

Post by w4 » Thu, Oct 29, 2015, 1:50 PM UTC

WildUtah wrote: post #41

w4 wrote: post #3

That's a shame. Gravity looks like a clever app, and the UX in the reviewer video was pretty slick. The spoon + quarter calibration is great! This sort of thing is why I'm increasingly disinterested in developing for iOS for fun (and why most of my recent side project work has been on web apps). App review is effectively a black box since the rules are applied so inconsistently, and working for weeks or months on som…

App review is effectively a black box since the rules are applied so inconsistently, and working for weeks or months on something only to find out the Apple doesn't like it is a constant concern. Unless you're Facebook which has recently been caught abusing silent notifications to start up in the background and continue running permanently by streaming music at zero-volume while draining battery. Apple responds decen…

Post by dkonofalski » Thu, Oct 29, 2015, 3:31 PM UTC

Post by WildUtah » Thu, Oct 29, 2015, 7:04 PM UTC

w4 wrote: post #91

WildUtah wrote: post #41

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App review is effectively a black box since the rules are applied so inconsistently, and working for weeks or months on something only to find out the Apple doesn't like it is a constant concern. Unless you're Facebook which has recently been caught abusing silent notifications to start up in the background and continue running permanently by streaming music at zero-volume while draining battery. Apple responds decen…

> You mean 'uninterested,' not 'disinterested.' Uninterested may have been better, but disinterested works fine - see the usage notes (desktop only for some reason): http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/disinterested

Post by mchahn » Sat, Oct 31, 2015, 5:45 AM UTC

oxide wrote: post #32

cguess wrote: post #26

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Really really obvious reason they did this. People are dumb. Someone, probably very soon, and probably more than one or even ten people, would overload the weight and crack their screen. At which point they would show up at the Apple Store DEMANDING a brand new phone. When they didn't get the repair because they're too stupid to understand how glass works they would contact CNN or HuffPo or whatever and there'd be a…

the only thing I can imagine cracking the screen is trying to weigh a person. is that really something Apple would have to pay for? seems like something like that would fall well in "your fault" territory from my perspective. my first thought was drugs, might be handy to have a scale in my pocket sometimes.