I found all the people who made the unhinged ultradense unusably elaborate winamp skins back in the day! They're now making watch faces in the Garmin app store.
@ohmrun Pretty sure that's either made up or pulled from some weather service, because I don't think anyone's made a portable geiger counter that supports the ANT/ANT+ fitness accessory protocol... yet?...
@ohmrun I think the more important question is: why are there blank spaces still? There's a whole blue bar that could have more numbers or words. People just don't want to optimize any more.
Don't get me wrong, these are... neat, I guess? But also might I recommend studying the history of watchmaking and pondering why watches historically don't have more than two or three complications, even after transition to the digital era where movement complexity was no longer a concern
@danderson that there's a whole category for "Data Rich Watch Faces" suggests people really really like their data. If you don't have 32 fields including the wind speed, humidity, time in New York, and the AAPL stock ticker, are you even training?
@danderson Yeah. As a former Pebble user (RIP), the Garmin watch face selection is horrendous. Everything gets crammed in, there are very few simple or fun watchfaces. There are a good few from the Pebble i’d take over any of the Garmin ones
@gurgle Thankfully garmin's build your own watch face thing did a decent job for me there. Simple background, legible time layout, couple of data elements for vitals I care about, and done.
It is weird to me that the store seems to be full of ultra dense data rich faces, but when you sort by actual installs, the app to find the direction of Mecca gets orders of magnitude more installs than all of them. Strange inversion of what gets put up for sale vs. what sells.
@gurgle It's a bit hidden IMO but it's "Garmin Face It" in the IQ store app. My main complaint about it is that it doesn't let me align my 3 little data values, so I have to eyeball it and live with the knowledge that they will always be a few pixels off... Until I snap and learn how to make apps for the thing :P
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