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This is from 2014. The Android alarm clock now has roughly the same design.
by Rerarom 8y ago
This is from 2014. The Android alarm clock now has roughly the same design.
- ajross 8y agoExactly. I read through this thinking "But... Google basically cloned this about three years ago..."
- nextos 8y agoSomehow, but the end user experience is very different. I own both an N9, which I still use as an alarm clock, and a Pixel. The N9 alarm clock is incredibly smooth, and intuitive. You never over or underturn clock hands. Whereas I have seen lots of people, particularly my dad, struggling with the Android counterpart. The N9 was an incredibly well designed product in most respects. I particularly miss the small screen with a curved glass that integrated so well with single-hand gestures (up to minimize app, down to close, left and right to move to next or previous window-card). Maemo/MeeGo are, in some ways, the BeOS of the mobile world.
- nickpeterson 8y agoI like to imagine an alternate reality where Nokia, Rim, and Palm combined.
- z3t4 8y agoImagine if Microsoft would have embraced Meego instead of killing it, and focused more on business and quality apps. If you see a large wave, you should surf it, not try to make it change direction. But sometimes you have to make the wave, way out in the ocean where it will barely be noticed, but once it hits shallow water everyone else will be caught off guard.
- robocat 8y agoI disagree. The only similarity the Android UX has is trying to use an analogue face. When setting a new alarm Android prompts for the hours and then prompts the minutes. The flow is really whacko if you make a mistake. Your certainly are not setting both at once, and it isn't easy to edit. 2. The hours are a twenty four hour clock, and I regularly set an alarm for 4am when I mean 4pm. 3. After adding a new alarm it gets lost in the list I would guess Android gets the daylight saving stuff correct that he mentioned, but did you test it?