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Tinker – Create duration-based goals on your iPhone

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20 pointsjoekndy12 comments

It would be cool to track some history / time spent on different things. As it stands it does not seem differentiated enough from the native timer (or a watch, for that matter).

I hope that their next feature is the ability to queue up a bunch of goals for the day. Scheduling something for an hour from now is nice, but being able to say "I would like to do x,y and z today for this many minutes each" would be a nice thing to have. As it stands right now this is pretty similar to the built in clock app.

there's an app called Habit List (ios) that pretty much does that.

No Android app, no Windows Phone app. This is not an application suited for modern smartphone world.

As an app just launching it'd make sense to try product-market fit on one platform before investing in all three.

I don't know, he has a point, look at Instagram, Vine, and Clear. All very unsuccessful apps, all launched exclusively on iPhone first. /s

Using the term "unsuccessful" with Instragram and Vine is a bit misleading, IMHO. Instagram got a rather large (even if undeserved) purchase, and Vine is huge.

I think that was the (sarcastic) point.

It's perfectly suited to the modern smartphone world, developers aren't obligated to launch on every platform at once. You could potentially end up spending three or four times as long covering all the bases and end up with a product no one cares about, rolling out on one platform and seeing what level of demand you have it's a sane and sensible approach.

The main problem here is that if you don't launch simultaneously on multiple platforms, your app will get duplicated and polluted with ads almost immediately, especially given the simplicity of this one. Look at 2048 for example.

It could, but if your app is good then it'll stand head and shoulders above the copies. That's why Threes got an ADA and 2048 didn't.

Honestly it's a very exact reflection of todays modern smartphone world.

It takes a lot of time to develop an app correctly for each platform.

Most Android developers I speak to agree that Android is just not as easy and nice to develop for as iOS.

And also most developers see the best return on investment on iOS. You can certainly get the 'downloads' on Android, but it just doesn't translate into the same amount of revenue as users tend to expect more for free over there.

Makes sense to go to the other platforms once you feel you've exhausted the iOS market (though you'd have to be doing pretty well to claim that), or your produce relies on massive download growth (but not necessarily revenue)

It's not the developer being stupid, or trying to play fanboi etc when taking this path, it's just the reality of the app game.

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