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/

by cleverjake • 13 years ago

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sjtrny• 13 years ago

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

PLejeck4• 13 years ago

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

Entropy = entertainment

tedsanders3• 13 years ago

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

fit2rule• 13 years ago

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.

PLejeck4• 13 years ago

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.

victorology• 13 years ago

Time to make a Connect 4 iPhone case.

PLejeck4• 13 years ago

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

tedsanders3• 13 years ago

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

yumraj• 13 years ago

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...

tedsanders3• 13 years ago

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

PLejeck4• 13 years ago

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.

mistercheese• 13 years ago

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.

khangtoh• 13 years ago

This app is as exciting as the iPhone 5C.

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

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