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Apple Made a Sports App That Does Almost Nothing. It's Incredible

20 points by ForHackernews

by pkulak

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Wow, this is perfect. I've never found a sports app that was better than going to google.com and typing a team name. This is finally it. All I want to know, when it's getting about 4pm and my eyes start to glaze over: is there a game tonight?

by eastoeast

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This was on show hn years ago and it’s still my main sports source https://plaintextsports.com/

by joezydeco

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Am I seeing the same app as the author? I pull up the Stanley Cup stats and right there in the middle of the page are the betting lines for game 5, odds provided by DraftKings.
No advertising? Could have fooled me.

by m463

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I think a lot of their apps seem to be "placeholders" for some more comprehensive app someone else will make.
Maybe it is just a ploy to get people to find a replacement app in the app store, and get apple 30%.
or maybe "you're not the target market"... more complete apps are more complicated and might not be apple-like enough to create. Apple aligns more with simple than pro-user.
I wonder, does every apple user eventually become sophisticated enough to be "not the target market"??
sigh.

by karmakaze

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by dmitrygr

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I want the opposite: a news app where i can completely remove all sports and celebrity trash from being mentioned, referred to, or in any way appearing to exist.

by slwvx

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