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Watched the video, Did anyone really remove their iDevice from the doc like that? I know I didn't. Nice design thought.

mirceagoia 15y ago
Kickstarter becomes more and more the platform to be for stuff like that. As I see, anything related to mobile gets a lot of traction there.
- pchristensen 15y ago
  More like anything related to iOS gets traction - I don't recall seeing a single Android-specific or even compatible project on Kickstarter, let alone the most successful ones. It helps if design-y people love your products/brand.
  - mirceagoia 15y ago
    You are most probably right.
  - r00fus 15y ago
    iOS devices present a (mostly) constant form factor, allowing a large addressable market with customers/funders who are willing to pay for quality. A rigorously-designed dock can address not only iPhones, but iPods as well. That's the Apple platform strength - the weakness is changes are sometimes sudden and can eliminate or subsume 3rd party product markets entirely.
BHSPitMonkey 15y ago
Yeah... Their dock would look pretty silly too if I flung it around like a maraca.
marknutter 15y ago
Of course nobody flings their phone around until the dock falls off, but until I watched that video I never realized that I do in fact always have to grab the dock with my off hand or push off with my fingers if I'm grabbing the phone with one hand. I'm not sure this annoys me so much, but there are clearly plenty of others who are annoyed themselves.
jfarmer 15y ago
Nobody does it that way because you can't do it that way. I and most people I know either use two hands, or grab the phone while holding the dock in place with one finger. This is an absolutely fantastic, thoughtful design.
noonespecial 15y ago
My dock pissed me off so much I made a bracket and screwed it to the table. It seemed to be just tight enough so that I'd start picking it up and them it fall loose and smash back down, usually ending up on the floor. I think there's going to be a revival of ordinary things that aren't cheap plastic from china. Its become a theme in my life.

Kickstarter becomes more and more the platform to be for stuff like that. As I see, anything related to mobile gets a lot of traction there.

pchristensen 15y ago
More like anything related to iOS gets traction - I don't recall seeing a single Android-specific or even compatible project on Kickstarter, let alone the most successful ones. It helps if design-y people love your products/brand.
- mirceagoia 15y ago
  You are most probably right.
- r00fus 15y ago
  iOS devices present a (mostly) constant form factor, allowing a large addressable market with customers/funders who are willing to pay for quality. A rigorously-designed dock can address not only iPhones, but iPods as well. That's the Apple platform strength - the weakness is changes are sometimes sudden and can eliminate or subsume 3rd party product markets entirely.

BHSPitMonkey 15y ago

Yeah... Their dock would look pretty silly too if I flung it around like a maraca.

marknutter 15y ago

Of course nobody flings their phone around until the dock falls off, but until I watched that video I never realized that I do in fact always have to grab the dock with my off hand or push off with my fingers if I'm grabbing the phone with one hand. I'm not sure this annoys me so much, but there are clearly plenty of others who are annoyed themselves.

jfarmer 15y ago

Nobody does it that way because you can't do it that way. I and most people I know either use two hands, or grab the phone while holding the dock in place with one finger. This is an absolutely fantastic, thoughtful design.

noonespecial 15y ago

My dock pissed me off so much I made a bracket and screwed it to the table. It seemed to be just tight enough so that I'd start picking it up and them it fall loose and smash back down, usually ending up on the floor. I think there's going to be a revival of ordinary things that aren't cheap plastic from china. Its become a theme in my life.