tojikomori

tojikomori, 11 months ago

Of all the rumors in this roundup, the one I'm most curious about is (not the headset) "widgets" on Apple Watch:

Apple is ready to stop focusing as much attention on full apps as most people do not use them, and will instead put at-a-glance information front and center. ‌Widgets‌ will offer up a quick, interactive way for users to access key information on the Apple Watch.

If these widgets are something end users can build and share ad-hoc – like Shortcuts or old OS X Dashboard widgets – then they could be incredibly fun and useful.

I've slowly gotten over the loss of my Pebble Steel, but Pebble's platform remains unrivaled for customizability. I know I'll never be allowed to have that much fun with an Apple product, but maybe this will give me some of the same utility.

tojikomori, 11 months ago

If someone walks away from the event thinking they might buy a product like this from Apple someday, that's a win for Apple – even if they're not sold on the current device.

This is what I'm most curious to see on Monday. So far VR hasn't really excited me, and the idea of a new headset with a price barrier the size of its rumored bill of materials only makes me less enthusiastic about it as a consumer product.

If it's a product intended for creators or developers – not just as a development kit but with actual productive use cases – then Apple might have my attention for a future generation. But if, as rumors suggest, this is primarily intended for gaming, I don't see a future where I'm interested in any generation of it. In 18 years of following Apple, that's a first for me.

tojikomori, 11 months ago

Starfield backgrounds were obligatory! I remember spending hours in Paint Shop Pro's pattern mode trying to make sure my white and grey pixels repeated nicely: not so busy as to look like noise, but dense and random enough to hide the repetition.