Apple Made a Sports App That Does Almost Nothing. It's Incredible

Apple Made a Sports App That Does Almost Nothing. It's Incredible(slate.com)

15 points by ForHackernews 2 hours ago | 8 comments

pkulak 2 hours ago |

Wow, this is perfect. I've never found a sports app that was better than going to google.com and typing a team name. This is finally it. All I want to know, when it's getting about 4pm and my eyes start to glaze over: is there a game tonight?

karmakaze 28 minutes ago |

Woah, a return to old glory form? Simply good is great.

eastoeast 1 hour ago |

This was on show hn years ago and it’s still my main sports source https://plaintextsports.com/

m463 1 hour ago |

I think a lot of their apps seem to be "placeholders" for some more comprehensive app someone else will make.

Maybe it is just a ploy to get people to find a replacement app in the app store, and get apple 30%.

or maybe "you're not the target market"... more complete apps are more complicated and might not be apple-like enough to create. Apple aligns more with simple than pro-user.

I wonder, does every apple user eventually become sophisticated enough to be "not the target market"??

sigh.

caycep 1 hour ago | |

granted, I think the intended or unintended effect of being stripped down creates a lot of unexpected "perfect apps".

See Michael Tsai's (I think?) professed love for TextEdit

or how pretty much every celebrity/creative with an iPhone posts letters to their fans/followers on Notes app screenshots

throw310822 24 minutes ago | |

I've also given some thoughts to why Microsoft ships (shipped?) for decades stuff like notepad instead of some advanced text editor. My hunch was that as a platform provider you don't want to occupy the ground that should be left to third party developers- you need them to fill your platform with applications. So you provide the absolute basic and let others compete to produce the advanced apps.

slwvx 2 hours ago |

give Apple some time; they'll add ads and otherwise enshitify the app

valleyer 1 hour ago | |

It has ads already — for its own sports broadcasts on Apple TV+.