Re:Apple Tests ‘Apple GPT,’ Develops Generative AI Tools to ...
by crazygringo on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @01:33PM
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I actually do treat them very differently on my Home Mini. I want them to be different in the following ways:
- Timers can be set to the second (2 minutes 30 seconds), alarms are only to the minute (5:00) (it already works this way, I think)
- A timer noise should be immediate and jarring (so you can rush out of the other room to pull the thing out of the oven before it burns), alarms should start quiet and harmonious and only gradually increase in volume and obnoxiousness as needed to wake you up (sadly, few alarms are like that, but Google timer/alarm sounds are different)
- Ideally you want to be able to give timers names when you set them ("oven", "stockpot", "toaster oven") when you're using multiple, that are repeated when they go off (Google doesn't do this). You don't need this with alarms
- Alarms need a snooze option. Timers don't
While they both involve a sonic alert after a certain amount of time, their use cases are so different that they really are totally separate features.
- Timers can be set to the second (2 minutes 30 seconds), alarms are only to the minute (5:00) (it already works this way, I think)
- A timer noise should be immediate and jarring (so you can rush out of the other room to pull the thing out of the oven before it burns), alarms should start quiet and harmonious and only gradually increase in volume and obnoxiousness as needed to wake you up (sadly, few alarms are like that, but Google timer/alarm sounds are different)
- Ideally you want to be able to give timers names when you set them ("oven", "stockpot", "toaster oven") when you're using multiple, that are repeated when they go off (Google doesn't do this). You don't need this with alarms
- Alarms need a snooze option. Timers don't
While they both involve a sonic alert after a certain amount of time, their use cases are so different that they really are totally separate features.