Apple’s hidden flight tracker app
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[0]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uidatadetect...
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uidatadetect...
To me, it’s quite clear that Apple is OK with letting a hundred power users miss a hidden feature than having even one non-techie overwhelmed with choice anxiety (I am exaggerating the numbers surely).
One of the Youtubers, who had previously been a lifetime Windows user, complained that he loved using iMessage on his laptop, but it didn't receive his SMS messages like his phone does.
After getting a ton of comments suggesting that it was a feature you have to turn on in the preferences, his next video was him being amazed that the phone would not only forward him the SMS messages, but that the Mac would recognize SMS messages with two factor verification codes and offer to fill them into the proper place automatically.
Their Google-street-view-like feature is just an unobtrusive link that says "look around" or something like that in their maps app on the iphone. Never mind that this is a massive amount of work, and that they're in the process of mapping all of Europe, and I assume the US.
- it was shown off at the keynote last year https://youtu.be/TfRMXk53wPY
- I believe the tips app will mention it to you
- they have support articles describing it https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT212630
- any text field you're in will let you scan text directly from the camera.
Granted, maybe they could go further to show people when they go into the photos app or something, but it's definitely a very highlighted feature relative to others.
They rarely throw "check out the new features!" dialogs on upgrades. (Sometimes they do, but it's rare relative to the # of new features.)
It’s also in the Tips app, which is great to go through from time to time!
BTW, you can switch it off globally easily - it's in language/region settings on both iOS and Mac.
Edit: KL605 to SFO worked while typing (it's in the air now), KL1125 to Copenhagen did not work while typing but did show up after pressing search (it's in the air now). Similar for KL713 to Paramaribo worked after pressing search, while it's still on the ground.
A journey-constrained social network. E.g. if you frequently travel between New York and Paris, you’ll be allowed to join the JFK-CDG group, then you can talk about travel deals, where to go in each city (as you’re likely from there or going there, and it’s a fair exchange with the other groups), what’s cheaper or worth buying as a gift from one place back to the other, etc.
Doesn’t have to be flight specific as the journey method.
B: GP said the intent was for "frequent travelers", i.e. I'm assuming one-off travelers are intended not to be allowed. Having to verify multiple trips before you can get in sounds like a horrible user experience.
Define areas of interest. Create tour routes. Geo-specific content (You can post audio, links, etc, to a particular point of interest.
When you arrive within the designated (content poster defined) area, and are within a certain range of the POI - the content can be auto played, such as the audio description of a view point, landmark etc.
It will do way finding and pathing...
We have a working MVP on android, but like I said its currently dormant.
One feature that is useful to emergency responders is the ability to provide geo-cache locations, so when the scouts for firefighters are scoping a best route to address front-line wild fire, they can mark a point where they leave an equipment cache, take a photo of it and share the route with firefighters.
We have a digital LED wayfinding strip in the brim of a hat - so you have the way finding light compass to tell you the way.
We have a patent on the hat...
For instance, I like to keep up with my colleges sports teams, but I don’t need the live tracker stuff (if I wanted that I’d watch the game on tv). But I’d love to have a Home Screen button that would bring up the “app” for “Georgia Tech baseball score” or “Georgia Tech basketball score” to quickly see what’s going on what I’m in between meetings at work or out doing something with the family.
No ads, no frills, it’d be gloriously simple and I assume there is some way to do it but I could not find it.
On my to-do list is making a personalized page where you can select exactly which teams you want to follow, something closer to what dpeck wants, but I've been having trouble finding the time...
Curious, it seems college baseball scores are generally not as easy to find as others. Do they tend to be behind more restrictive APIs, or is it more just that there’s so little interest in it vs MLB?
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Message 1: 123456789012
Message 2: Tracking number.
Message 3: 2nd tracking, 210987654321
If I press and hold on the first tracking number, the menu of options is contact-info focused—call, WhatsApp, Add to Contacts, etc. If I do the same on the second number I get an option to Track Shipment. But I can paste both numbers into Spotlight and directly get tracking info. So I'm not certain why one tracking number behaves one way and a second another way.
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