Squeezemenicely wrote: > > It is important to understand that the watch is perfect for basic info > and commands. It is not a mini iPhone. Something some developers simply > did wrong, in trying to add too much functionality and info on the tiny > screen. > Definitely. It's one of these things why I'm concerned about search. The idea looks cool and the voice rec. is not too bad but how to you proceed from there on? Only local search and then 5 albums, artists and track etc? Lists longer than 20 items load so slowly that you are really holding up a lo of things of you do them although navigation lists is not too bad with the crown.
But what about MySB users then? Do they get Globalsearch instead and how does that fare with it's mile-deep menu structures? There's also a technical aspect in that I chose a page-based App. This makes accessing the NowPlaying stuff and the current playlist easier - and we remember: that was the important part. But it means you can not have hierarchical menus - nowhere. So I'd have to stack the whole menu hierarchy with modal views, that's really ugly. So the current plan for search would be to have local search only and when I add that ickStream search (on ickStream I can directly access context so I can flatten out menu structures) you've got at least a few menus... But do I really want to give up one of the 4 menu slots for that? Currently I've got 5 features I'd want in there which is a problem :) > > Also people wanting a webbrowser. Why?????? > I believe these things will go away. Nobody has any real experience with these things so people experiment. In the long run the stuff for which the watch is really useful will evolve. My bet is on sports, notification stuff including interactive notifications (that's the killer feature, IMHO) and maybe - drumroll - remote control. I don't personally wear the watch a lot but if I do I actually use it for starting/stopping my Squeezeboxes because these quick actions are just much faster than on an iPhone or iPad. It really gets close to using device control, especially on the second use (when the App is already loaded). > > The screenshots show that it is definitely doing it right and Pippin > actually has and und understands the watch. So, I am counting the > days... Well, it's on Apple now... To have the watch was important. I'd done a first design on the simulator and I threw it away, you really have to have the device to understand how it works. And what doesn't. And you completely get priorities wrong. I tried to go with the system font and no scrolling labels in the first place because I thought it would speed thing up (don't notice any change now) but that really didn't work out well, the system font is optimized for legibility at small point sizes which means you can use a relatively small font to get more lines onto the screen. But at the expense of run length. But on the NowPlaying screen I only have single lines of text (title, artist) which can be somewhat long so a tighter font with scrolling really was needed. (Hint: Apple does it but how many 3rd party Apps with scrolling text have you seen on the watch? :D It's pretty cool). Looking forward I wonder what Apple will show for the Watch on WWDC. Full native Apps, I don't really believe it, yet, that may be a bit too early, that thing isn't really that stable, yet. Maybe improved controls first. I'd really want a volume slider that supports the crown, that current thing using only buttons is really a bummer. --- 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
