This week on The CultCast: You’ll laugh, you’ll cry — wait till you hear the latest lawsuit aimed right at Apple’s biggest products. Plus: Leaked photos of EarPods with a Lightning connector look better than expected; why we may never get third-party Apple Watch faces; Netflix is adding a feature it swore would never happen; and a man builds a vibrant photography career in the world of sports with nothing but his iPhone. Oh, and Val Kilmer dances with a carrot in his derriere. Just hit play already.
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This week’s links
Netflix to add offline viewing by the end of 2016
John Gruber: Don’t Ever Expect Third Party Watch Faces on Apple Watch
Gaze upon iPhone 7’s Lightning EarPods in all their glory
Apple sued by man who claims he invented iPhone in 1992
Meet the sports shooter who leaves heavy gear behind for an iPhone
Erfon mentioned these Sony XBA-H1 earphones!
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3 responses to “3rd-party Apple Watch faces, and how the iPhone was really invented, this week on The CultCast”
More than 5 yeas ago I sent Tim Cook and others VP some concepts that probably were used at the creation of the Watch Faces. I’m very proud of myself, just unhappy for the lack of gratitude and recognition.
October, 2012: “Dear Mr. Tim Cook,
I had an idea that I believe will be a very exciting reading:
The idea would be, in principle, an implement to iOS. It is an interactive interface inspired by the gravity of the solar system, but instead of planets, we would have the information and the user.
Gravitational forces would be calculated using the information of application usage and collection of information about the accesses. The genious works on similar principles.
This interface would replace, in the first case, the central notifications.
The graphical user experience could be a preview of images and messages moving across the screen with an extraordinary visual as well as sites and people.
I thought of a few names, isolate, Solar, Orbit, iOrbit, iView, iConstelation, Constelation and Helio. Helio is a good name!
The great advantage of this system would be Apple’s Siri equalization, to understand the peculiarities of each user as well as the right programming designed to meet the user and the content they like best. The system
Congratulations by the changes. I believe now that major innovations in iOS can be realized.
Another idea might be the Life, where the GUI would be inspired or on planet earth, or geometric object centered on the screen, and the images, content would emerge like the life of a planet.
Please give me a feedback”
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