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From the 60 minutes article: >Ramsay Brown and his garage start-up Dopamine Labs made a habit-breaking app as well. It’s called “Space” and it creates a 12-se
by IBM 10y ago
From the 60 minutes article:
>Ramsay Brown and his garage start-up Dopamine Labs made a habit-breaking app as well. It’s called “Space” and it creates a 12-second delay -- what Brown calls a “moment of Zen” before any social media app launches. In January, he tried to convince Apple to sell it in their App Store.
Somehow I don't think that was why his app was rejected.
- coralreef 10y agoHow does that even work on a system level? iOS apps can't really influence the execution of another...
- moron4hire 10y agoWhat I gathered from the article is that it replaces the icons on your homescreen with its own icons. So you get several Space app icons on your home screen, each one individually configured to launch a different app, but only first after recording that your user engagement is so high that you are indeed willing to put up with a 12 second pause before reading the latest tweets and status updates.
- zepto 10y agoThe only way to accomplish that is through a jailbreak or undocumented APIs - probably only a jailbreak. 60 Minutes has been played by the creator of the app.
- barce 10y agoThis wouldn't be the first time they have been played given whom they've interviewed: a dishonored Nixon, a cadre of tobacco executives, and a bunch of confabulators from the US customs who claimed no drug trafficking between US and Mexico.
- chrisdroukas 10y agoThere are a few workarounds that don't involve undocumented APIs for this, as someone else in this thread mentioned. Facebook's Groups app uses (disclaimer: as far as I can tell) an interesting technique involving saving data URIs to the home screen and then deep linking them.
- zepto 10y agoExactly - presumably it's either a Jailbreak app or it uses undocumented APIs.
- djrogers 10y agoIt's hard to tell FTA, but from what I can gather it basically acts as a launcher for the social media app of your choice(s?). Pretty basic - you open the app, it does whatever pause mumbo jumbo it wants, then uses a URL scheme to launch twitter/FB/etc.
- ndespres 10y agoSpace gives you a replacement icon for your time and attention sucks of choice, whether it’s Twitter, Facebook or Snapchat. OTOH the easiest way to do this would be to have the Space app help to automate creation of Safari shortcuts on the home screen (which would be called Twitter and show the correct icon), which launches a hypothetical page in Safari like https://twitter.space.usedopamine.com https://twitter.space.usedopamine.com which would show the pulsing animation for 12 seconds, before launching the actual Twitter.app.
- ldjb 10y agoThat's probably it. The Twitter.app, Facebook.app, Snapchat.app, etc. would all still have their own icons, of course. But you could just hide those away in a folder.
- dvfjsdhgfv 10y agoWell, according to the second paragraph: "A rep from the Apple Store Review reportedly said that “any app designed to help people use their phones less is unacceptable for distribution in the App Store.”". That's about the whole point of the article: Google doesn't decide for their use how they should use their own phones, whereas Apple kind of tries to.