These clever apps show off the iPhone Duo’s potential

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These clever apps show off the iPhone Duo’s potential

距离我真正对一款新 iPhone 感到兴奋已经过去很久了。多年来,新 iPhone 意味着设备变得更薄、更快,并且摄像头有了令人难以置信的升级。在某个时间点(苹果的忠实拥趸们可以争论这是哪一年的机型!),新 iPhone 变成了一种渐进式的升级。稍微好一点,稍微快一点。也许有一个新的按钮需要学习,一根新的充电线,或者屏幕上有一个新的刘海,但 iPhone 本身仍然是它一贯的那种长方形玻璃和金属手持设备。iPhone Duo 改变了这一点,让苹果能够以一款折叠手机进入折叠屏手机市场,虽然它并不完美,但它新奇、有趣,而且,是的,确实令人兴奋。

It’s hard to say when the urge to acquire the iPhone Duo first kicked in. I’ll admit that it wasn’t during the official announcement, which left me feeling puzzled about the device’s potential. Do I actually want a phone that folds, I wondered? Was propping up the phone as a little tent to watch Netflix worth all that extra money? (The Duo starts at $2,000). As it turned out, the desire for the Duo grew on me as I saw developers embracing the new foldable design to create Duo-optimized apps. Apple’s software development community, after all, is what keeps me locked into the iPhone. Apple developers are active, creative, engaged, and still often build for iOS first – a must if you like trying things early.

很难说购买 iPhone Duo 的冲动是什么时候开始产生的。我承认那不是在官方发布会期间,当时我对这款设备的潜力感到困惑。我真的想要一部能折叠的手机吗?我心想。把手机支成一个小帐篷看 Netflix 真的值得那么多额外的钱吗?(Duo 起售价为 2000 美元)。事实证明,随着我看到开发者们拥抱这种新的折叠设计来创建 Duo 优化应用,我对 Duo 的渴望与日俱增。毕竟,苹果的软件开发社区是我一直使用 iPhone 的原因。苹果的开发者们活跃、有创造力、敬业,而且通常仍然优先为 iOS 构建应用——如果你喜欢抢先体验新事物,这一点至关重要。

Of course, the initial Duo reviews have pointed out how many mainstream iOS apps have not yet been made ready for the Duo, which is true. Many of the apps you use every day were not optimized by launch day, meaning they’re surrounded by black bars, have their controls in odd places, or have to be enlarged with a tap, similar to the early days of running iPhone apps on iPad. But the developers who have specifically built for the Duo sparked my interest. Soon, my inbox was filled with pitches for clever apps I couldn’t yet try unless I got my hands on a Duo. Hello, FOMO. The best of these don’t just adapt their apps to display correctly on the foldable form factor, but make use of the fact that there are different displays of different sizes – and they incorporate that into the design of the apps themselves. Below are some of my early favorites, tested on a review unit provided by Apple.

当然,最初的 Duo 评测已经指出,许多主流 iOS 应用尚未为 Duo 做好准备,这是事实。你每天使用的许多应用在发布当天并没有经过优化,这意味着它们被黑边包围,控件位置奇怪,或者必须通过点击来放大,类似于早期在 iPad 上运行 iPhone 应用的日子。但那些专门为 Duo 构建应用的开发者激发了我的兴趣。很快,我的收件箱里就塞满了各种巧妙应用的推介,如果我不拿到 Duo,我就无法尝试。你好,错失恐惧症(FOMO)。其中最好的应用不仅能让它们在折叠外形上正确显示,还利用了存在不同尺寸显示屏这一事实,并将这一点融入到了应用本身的设计中。以下是我早期的一些最爱,是在苹果提供的评测机上测试的。

Netflix

让我们从基础开始。Netflix 是苹果为 Duo 发布挑选的合作伙伴之一,并且在设备发货时就已经完成了流媒体应用的 Duo 优化,其他合作伙伴还包括 MLB 应用、NYT Cooking、Slack、我首选的日历应用 Fantastical 等。但 Netflix 是我预期中 Duo 常规使用场景的完美展示:观看电影和电视。这款流媒体应用不仅被扩展以填满屏幕,它还利用了存在两种不同屏幕尺寸这一事实来进行构建。在外屏(设备折叠时看到的显示屏)上,你可以浏览 Netflix 的短视频、类似 TikTok 的“片段”,然后打开设备,在更大的哑光内屏上继续观看视频。两种体验之间的转换感觉就像展开 Duo 本身一样顺畅,因为内容会自动适应新的屏幕尺寸。由于我个人发现这些天我大部分时间都在手机上而不是客厅的大屏幕上看电视,我很欣赏能够用一台设备在手机和更大的屏幕之间切换的选择。我想,这将是我最常用的应用之一。

Deck-Man (Formerly Duo-Man)

看,我早在九月就预言过了。我必须把功劳归于 Deck-Man(以前称为 Duo-Man),它是第一款让我想要购买 Duo 的应用。这款音乐播放器由独立开发者 Vidit Bhargava 在一次黑客马拉松中设计,巧妙地利用了 Duo 的两个屏幕来模仿 Walkman 卡带播放器的功能。这款有趣的应用将卡带播放器重新构想为一种带有复古氛围的数字体验,让你像浏览卡带一样浏览你最喜欢的专辑,然后将它们装入播放器。你可以像在硬件设备上一样,通过播放、暂停、快进和快退控件来控制播放,并配有从真正的便携式卡带播放器录制的真实点击声和卡带声。

With the Duo open, the cassette appears to play on the right side of the screen, next to album imagery on the right. When closed, Deck-Man’s interface looks like the front of a Walkman. The app has appeal not only because it built something that could only exist on a hinged, foldable device like the Duo, but also because it taps into the growing demand for retro tech, which is partly a cultural response to the speed at which the AI industry is shipping out products. Retro tech, like dumbphones, digital cameras, vinyl, CDs, and landlines, recalls an older time when tech use was intentional, not just baked into every aspect of our lives. Honestly, if you buy a Duo and don’t install Deck-Man, I’m convinced you just don’t know how to have fun.

当 Duo 打开时,卡带似乎在屏幕右侧播放,旁边是右侧的专辑图像。当合上时,Deck-Man 的界面看起来就像 Walkman 的正面。这款应用之所以有吸引力,不仅是因为它构建了一些只能在像 Duo 这样带有铰链的折叠设备上存在的东西,还因为它利用了对复古科技日益增长的需求,这在一定程度上是对人工智能行业推出产品速度的一种文化回应。复古科技,如功能手机、数码相机、黑胶唱片、CD 和固定电话,让人回想起一个技术使用是有意为之的旧时代,而不是仅仅融入我们生活的方方面面。老实说,如果你买了 Duo 却不安装 Deck-Man,我确信你根本不知道如何享受乐趣。

TypeDraw

TypeDraw 应用旨在成为一本个人笔记本,看起来像是一种虚拟的 Moleskine——它甚至有一个弹性的闭合带。但在 Duo 上专门使用这款应用有一种独特的魅力,因为它的外形在合上时看起来非常像一本小笔记本。在 TypeDraw 内部,你可以使用你自己的手写字体进行输入,或者从其创建者 Phil Traut 设计的十几款字体中进行选择。

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