IPhone app turns your iPhone 5c and case into ‘Connect Four’ board(9to5mac.com)

29 pointsby cleverjakevor 13 Jahren13 comments

IPhone app turns your iPhone 5c and case into ‘Connect Four’ board

http://9to5mac.com/2013/10/13/iphone-app-turns-your-iphone-5c-and-case-into-connect-four-board/

13 comments

yumrajvor 13 Jahren

Am I the only one who found this rather ingenious as well as opportunist/enterprising, something that we at HN are supposed to celebrate and encourage, rather we are complaining about some trivialities?

A rather sad state of affairs...

tedsandersvor 13 Jahren

Yeah, it's a clever idea alongside a polished app. I wish I had been able to do something this cool!

PLejeckvor 13 Jahren

It's absolutely genius, I just wish Apple had executed their part in it better. They needed to position the holes properly for this usage, and they failed to align them properly.

tedsandersvor 13 Jahren

Connect Four is a 7x6 board. Their board is a a 5x5, which I'm confident is an easily forced draw. False advertising!

-A connect four enthusiast

khangtohvor 13 Jahren

This app is as exciting as the iPhone 5C.

PLejeckvor 13 Jahren

It's rather disappointing that the case doesn't fit perfectly in that direction. Would've worked better on the iPhone 4-style symmetrical-side design. Pity they dropped that for the 5c.

victorologyvor 13 Jahren

Time to make a Connect 4 iPhone case.

PLejeckvor 13 Jahren

Materials required: 1 roll of duct tape, 1 old physical game

sjtrnyvor 13 Jahren

Shame Connect 4 is really boring. First person to move will always win if they start in the middle column and use perfect play.

PLejeckvor 13 Jahren

It's entertaining for people who aren't perfect at it. Same goes for things like Tic Tac Toe.

Entropy = entertainment

tedsandersvor 13 Jahren

It's quite difficult to play perfectly, even if you study theory and openings for hours.

fit2rulevor 13 Jahren

I could see this being very useful for such applications as synthesizers, mixing apps, DJ consoles, and the like .. heck, any situation where you want the user experience to be channeled in some way. It is often true that swiping a blank-feeling screen, even with pretty lights under it, reduces ones feeling of accuracy. Being able to 'lean on the edges' with your fingertips might make it easier to dodge, bump, scan, and so on, with better accuracy. I'm willing to wager we'll see more of this sort of overlay business soon.

mistercheesevor 13 Jahren

Maybe I'm no fun, but am I the only one who fails to see why this is at all better than a normal, boring Connect Four App? This isn't the correct side board, and for the effort of attaching and un-attaching the case, it only adds a restrictive, small, physical grid which could just as easily have been drawn onto the screen anyway.