Charmingly ironic bug: several times a day, timers set on the Apple Watch… don't actually ring on time!
In this situation, the timer sounds only after I *look at* the watch. Presumably an accidental consequence of sleeping the watch face when not in use.
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A funny example of how cross-cutting software architecture is hard. It's pretty reasonable to assume that notifications can be delivered with "fuzzy" timing when the device is idle or asleep; easy to quantize to 5m or whatever and claim big power gains; except oops, timers.
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Jokes about an expensive watch failing to actually keep time aside, this relates to the story of when I knew for sure that I needed to leave Apple.
I'd been working on iOS for a few years, and it seemed the "experimental age" of the platform was mostly over…
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I wanted to work on new computing paradigms, not incremental updates, but I'd heard whispers of a watch project in the works. At last—I thought—an opportunity to help define a new platform with new contexts and affordances! After a year of pestering, I got access to the project.
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You could come work with us at Humane. 😉
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