{"id":9413,"date":"2023-06-15T10:05:35","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T08:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/?p=9413"},"modified":"2023-06-15T10:05:49","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T08:05:49","slug":"on-the-any-distance-workout-tracker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/on-the-any-distance-workout-tracker\/","title":{"rendered":"On The Any Distance – Workout Tracker"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>\n

I watched the Apple keynote and thought \u201cThis is demonstrating a dystopia, with the Pure Vision Goggles, rather than a eutopia. A dystopia where everyone is alone, working in VR, rather than surrounded by people. The dystopia continued on with an app.\u00a0In the age of two factor authentication they want to authenticate users by SMS, rather than free Two Factor Authentication. They’re losing users they almost seduced. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Apple App store has promoted the winners of the design awards but they forgot about the most important detail. They\u2019re promoting apps that are impossible to use if you\u2019re not in the US, within the ecosphere of the market they\u2019re in. This is a negative experience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am especially critical of the Any Distance – Workout Tracker for a number of reasons. The first is that there are hundreds of tracking apps, so one more, or one less doesn\u2019t change a thing. The second issue is that the app makes a big deal about privacy, but then asks for your e-mail, and your phone number. Those are two of the most personal things we can give. It then wants the geo-data from our activities. So much for privacy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These things don\u2019t really bother me, since so many fitness trackers are already getting that data. What bothers me is being told \u201cwe value your privacy\u201d but blocking registration, despite providing our phone numbers, because we\u2019re in Switzerland rather than one of the countries they support. They invade my privacy by requiring phone numbers, and then say \u201ccomputer says no\u201d because their app is to cheap, or too stupid to recognise swiss numbers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t promote or discuss an app that people can\u2019t use. You\u2019re wasting their time, and their good will. You grab their attention, they download the app, and then they\u2019re blocked because SMS are expensive. At least other apps limit reach, in the Apple Store, by country, rather than waste space on a mobile phone, for nothing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I deleted the app. They missed their chance. Now they will be forgotten, and fail, because they require sms authentication and they\u2019re too cheap to support Switzerland. They should have used two factor authentication. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>I watched the Apple keynote and thought \u201cThis is demonstrating a dystopia, with the Pure Vision Goggles, rather than a eutopia. A dystopia where everyone is alone, working in VR, rather than surrounded by people. The dystopia continued on with an app.\u00a0In the age of two factor authentication they want to authenticate users by SMS, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[255],"tags":[1079,5221,5222],"class_list":["post-9413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-swiss-walks","tag-app","tag-authentication","tag-mistake"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9415,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9413\/revisions\/9415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}