Lol you're spot on about this being impressive for a 12-year old. I'm a fan of Apple products, but this is a garbage app. I downloaded it, played around with it for a minute, saw there isn't an option to add your favorite NFL teams, deleted the app. I'll stick to Sports Alerts.
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I don't know why Apple puts all this crap under the Settings app. They do it with Apple Music too. It's very frustrating.
Get better ideas then. Apple isn't sherlocking anything with this app. If anything, it's removing all the bloat and garbage from the ESPN, CBS SPorts and Yahoo Sports apps of the world.
So if they don't add every sport known to man regardless of popularity right at the get-go it's "unfinished & never should be released as-is"?
I downloaded it and will use it since all other sports apps are bloated with ads or have an ugly UI.
But this seems like a Google app release - ship it out before it's complete. How does it not even have support for live activities, when those live activities are already in existence for some sports in the Apple TV+ app?
But this seems like a Google app release - ship it out before it's complete. How does it not even have support for live activities, when those live activities are already in existence for some sports in the Apple TV+ app?
Fast Company says the app supports Live Activities but it hasn't been confirmed or verified by others yet. I guess I'll know in a few minutes when the Liverpool game kicks off: https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...-focused-on-simplicity-says-eddy-cue.2420077/
Complete rubbish. If they’re going to make an app, at least make sure it’s comprehensive in its coverage, otherwise people tracking games/teams in lower league need a second app (which will likely be comprehensive, making the Apple one redundant). In the UK you have to cover at least the 4 top football leagues in England and the top one or two in Scotland. Otherwise it’s pointless. I imagine the same applies in France, Germany, etc.
i was just thinking I needed a simple text website to see sports scores/box scores. I go to ESPN and it is a chore because of all the clicking needed to read something simple and the loading between each page is obnoxious. The newspaper used to let me read a bunch of box scores on one page. The internet computer world has gotten so bloated.
but I don't want to see scores in real time or at least have the ability to not because I often watch stuff delayed.
But for a place to look up box scores for say an NBA game....if it's quick and comprehensive enough I will use it. Feel like it won't quite be comprehensive enough. We'll see.
but I don't want to see scores in real time or at least have the ability to not because I often watch stuff delayed.
But for a place to look up box scores for say an NBA game....if it's quick and comprehensive enough I will use it. Feel like it won't quite be comprehensive enough. We'll see.
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Highly doubt it has live activities… there’s no switch in the settings for it.
They are still in negotiations with numerous leagues in different sports. I wonder what made them rush to launch now...
Yeah how dare they "waste time" on an industry worth billions just cause you don't like it
Update: Liverpool game just started and the only Live Activity that shows up is the one that's been launching automatically for followed teams that comes from the Apple TV app. I'm sure that's what Fast Company was getting confused with as there's no setting for Live Activities with this app, nor are you even asked to enable notifications when you first launch it.
To no surprise, it is pulling from the exact same data source that the Live Activity play by play does when you look at it within the app.
The UI is very nice though, especially if you like clean and no-frills. Being able to turn off the betting crap is nice too.
To no surprise, it is pulling from the exact same data source that the Live Activity play by play does when you look at it within the app.
The UI is very nice though, especially if you like clean and no-frills. Being able to turn off the betting crap is nice too.
Yes I know, it says season.
Plus, I was obviously joking. I thought "time travel" was a clue
Yup, just like how the official league apps let you customize it with say, your favorite team
As will I too
I actually deleted ESPN in the process of getting this app in the hopes that it would be my replacement for it; FARRR from it (at least for now)
I for the time being at least switched to Sports Alerts, got all my favorite teams' notifications configured to my liking; now I'm looking forward to seeing how the dynamic island comes into play, especially if there are multiple teams of my favorites that so happen to be playing at the same time
On a side note with that Sports Alerts app, while I have all my favorites configured on the phone side, on my Watch, they don't seem to show and it seems that you can only configure the watch favorites on a per-league basis; so far, unless I'm missing something as to how to configure just a team on there as a favorite, pretty solid app thus far
A lesser person or a person from the country that the company doesn't originate in? Seems a bit extreme. I can understand anyone not in the US wanting all of the features that a US based company releases as soon as possible, but just logic would indicate that since it isn't their primary market that things won't happen at the same pace and has nothing to do with people being "lesser" or "greater"
Also, beyond where the company is based, there is also economics to consider. Since they are a business who is looking to stay in business and generate revenue and then profit, they are going to want to take advantage of where they can get the best return on the expenditure of effort. The US market is saturated with people who spend a lot of money on many things. If you are going to argue about "lesser" you would actually maybe need to consider the opposite since the spenders in the US are often making poor decisions about spending money and thereby enticing businesses for focus their efforts in that market.
No motorsports.
"There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games"
– Ernest Hemingway
