This functionality could probably be done with an iPhone or iPad and MFi today, if not a small form factor computer of some sort, or a Pi or Arduino.
I am still disappointed at having such a powerful piece of hardware in my pocket and not being able to write and run a native application for the device, on the device.
Many years ago, when smartphones first became a thing, I had certain expectations about what would be possible and yet here we are over a decade later and it’s still not possible to do that thing, simply because Apple doesn’t want us to be able to do it.
I think we should continue to talk about this until the day comes where it becomes possible.
But I'm also disappointed at how HN seems to only have like 5 topics people want to discuss and the comments on every submission find their way back to those topics no matter how tenuous.
doesn't that just point to the impact and magnitude of the perceived problem?
"Yeah, I know the kitchen is on fire, but let's talk about how the pancakes taste."
'group-attention' migrates back to the collective concern; seems unsurprising, espescially in the face of being reminded of a product that had these concerns handled well compared to our future selves.
By any means necessary.
I wrote a couple of apps using Quartus Forth[1] entirely on the Palm IIIx. Admittedly fairly simple ones but done entirely locally.