Agreed. That's what I love about Sports Alerts. The Apple one will stay on my phone and will have to earn its way to my second screen to replace Sports Alerts, only when it does live activities, notifications and widgets. You know, basic iOS things. And an iPad app.
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Apple's New Sports App for iPhone Focused on Simplicity, Says Eddy Cue
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I see massive amounts of bitching here about a free app that’s 1.0 and has no ads (at least at this point).
Does anyone really think Apple isn’t going to add leagues, watch support, additional countries/languages, features, etc.? Free apps like this are always the beginning, not the finished product.
Does anyone really think Apple isn’t going to add leagues, watch support, additional countries/languages, features, etc.? Free apps like this are always the beginning, not the finished product.
Yeah, now that I think about it, I take back some of the stuff I said about certain things missing from the start, as I know that some of these things take good time to implement even if they have to be temporarily missing from version 1.0
So with that, better for them to take the time to iterate what they need to for those features, and then once all that's ready then release the updates. Could they have waited to release an app with those features already baked in? Absolutely, but I guess someone was eager to get this out there even if that means it's missing some key features that the others have...
I'll definitely be back to this app once those features are added though!
I downloaded it, but man, there are so many basic Apple things missing from the app right now. I'll keep it installed and hope for some updates down the road.
It looks decent for sports I don’t really pay much attention to but may want to glance at results for now and again, like American sports. As a hardcore soccer fan though I’ll be sticking with FotMob; it has pretty much every stat for every league.
If this app represents the quality of what they plan to do with sports, this part of their business strategy is in big trouble.
this is the first time I saw someone call themselves that. I thought its football to hardcore fans
I was saying the same thing about Phillips Hue and the difference between their EU portfolio and NA portfolio. Wish their EU-centricity would abate too.
Haha, just wanted to differentiate between that and NFL. As other posters have alluded to, it’s a pretty US-centric app.
It’s a sports score app. What is the point in currently including NFL when there won’t be a score to report on in…6 months? It’s not delivering news, just the scores.
It provides "betting odds". What happened to Apple being pure and wholesome?
News+, TV+, iCloud sync, etc. I rarely if ever have issues with those services that he’s been integral to.
Man, I like things that Apple has done, but when was a company run at times by Steve Jobs ever wholesome?
(Note: was an Apple Certified Tech from 99-2001 during the 604/G3/G4 years)
The music industry has their hands all over apple. Go read through Michael Darius twitter/threads posts about what happened at/to Apple
