Someone should come up with “quick buttons”. Physical buttons that can be attached anywhere. Pressing them launches an app on your phone and performs a certain action in it.
For example, there’s a robot vacuum about a meter away from me. To send it to the kitchen, it takes about 30 seconds. Launch the app, it has to load, connect with the vacuum, load the map, select the kitchen, and start its journey there. 30 seconds might not seem like much, but it’s annoying because they are not spent fruitfully. I just need to give a command and forget about it.
Or in the car, start something while you’re driving. You could just press a button – and it would kick off on its own.
Today, Apple introduced a bunch of features that Androids had many years ago. Here’s an idea for you, Apple. Make those buttons. They should be simple and cheap. For instance, based on a simple Bluetooth beacon. Each button has an ID and just broadcasts it into the air, and the phone catches this signal and responds by launching an app.
They should work like this: you press and hold a button. The phone detects this and activates the macro recording mode. You launch the app, and press the necessary buttons there. All this is recorded into a macro. Press the button again – the macro stops recording. From now on, every time you press the button, the recorded macro is executed. Profit! You could order laundry detergent on the internet with a press of a button from the laundry room (Amazon Dash is already in this game).
You then link this macro to a voice command for Siri or associate it with some complex gesture for quick launching.
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