thouky wrote: > The middle two on that list are definitely the ones that I would request > added to your initial feature set. > Well, none of that will be in the _initial_ feature set :) I want to get some opinions first based on NowPlaying, playlist, player switching an power.
It was my original plan to add these two next but since then I found that what I really miss most is a rating feature (starring a track, specifically). If you use these, it's something you definitely want quick access to. Favorites and Search are a bit problematic. They are good features but both are features only a subset of all users use at all. For those who do, it's of course important, for all others it's a wasted slot. Long lists and browsing-style functionality generally is something that doesn't work well on the watch, it's really better for interaction-style functionality. > > Can 'CLI macros' be added as favourites (like those in the KidsPlay > plugin)? That would allow common operations for a particular user to be > more convenient on the watch... Yes, that would be an option, to allow users to define a set of features they want. User defined "CLI" macros is probably not something I'm going to do. Only four or five users will ever use that but four or five hundred others will not understand it and keep bugging me with questions about it, it's the kind of features you can't afford to do on the App Store if you can't afford to hire a professional customer service. Also... not everything on the watch works through CLI. A lot of use cases are highly App State dependent (starting playback on the iPhone alone was probably the single most complicated feature because you have to assume that the parent App is not even running. This is generally the biggest difficulty in watch programming. Do a full cometd connect with status and all in iPeng takes 7s on average, that's totally unacceptable on the Watch, especially since the watch itself can easily need 5s to start the Watch App. Nobody waits 12s for something to happen on the watch.... philippe_44 wrote: > Will probably sound silly, but "follow me" would be a feature for which > I would buy a watch :) - no intention otherwise Well, with QuickSwitch it's three clicks (plus two launching the App, assuming you go through the glance which is really the only sensible way to use a watch App). To do it actively on the Watch would - first of all - requires something to actually run on the watch, something current WatchKit Apps can't do, the run entirely on the iPhone. It really strongly reminds me of how the old Squeezeboxes work. There's too, you had to do absolutely everything on the server side and then send it over the network. That's exactly how the watch works. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 8, the Universal App for iOS 7 and iOS 8* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103693 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
