When I compare the various iPhone chess apps (I bought them all), Deep Green offers pretty much the same functionality as the rest, and sometimes more, but with a fraction of the UI. Achieving this is why I’m 4 months later than the rest.
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When I compare the various iPhone chess apps (I bought them all), Deep Green offers pretty much the same functionality as the rest, and sometimes more, but with a fraction of the UI. Achieving this is why I’m 4 months later than the rest.
GeeIWonder
on 10 Dec 08I don’t even understand what that sentence means.
Kimiko
on 10 Dec 08http://cocoastuff.com/deepgreen/
Bondo decided to go with a clean and elegant design with the controls/widgets you need instead of hogging the display down with useless stuff people don’t care about.
Simplicity, elegancy and ease of use. Got to love it! :D
Josh
on 10 Dec 08You might want to think a bit harder then..
Josh
on 10 Dec 08Also I picked this up the other day on the recommendation of DaringFireball. It’s amazingly well put together. Definitely worth the 4.99.
Davy Campano
on 10 Dec 08I’ve been using the “Chess With Friends” app for the past month and they have a very easy interface and it’s FREE
Davy Campano
on 10 Dec 08Didn’t realize at first that Deep Green was a single-player chess game playing the computer. Chess With Friends only has 2 player mode (network or locally).
GeeIWonder
on 10 Dec 08Achieving this is why I’m 4 months later than the rest.
Seriously—what is he trying to say here? I honestly have no idea? He’s used it for 4 months more? He’s behind 4 months in his progress? He started later? What?
CJ Curtis
on 10 Dec 08It means stuffing an app full of UI to accomplish its task is a lot easier than building an app that has less UI with more functionality an more usability.
Although I admit that I read it five times myself.
GeeIWonder
on 10 Dec 08Ok, so he means he released it 4 months later I guess (took 4 months longer? maybe I guess) Thanks CJ—meshes with the link.
Rich
on 10 Dec 08I’m at a plant right now, and it gives me a headache looking at some of the stuff people have created for workers to interact with the automated equipment, even the charts they post. I just want to find the guy that used purple for a pushbutton and beat him with his mouse.
Gord
on 10 Dec 08“I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”
– Mark Twain
spin_girl
on 10 Dec 08I use iChess Lite and love it. My daughter (8) is addicted to iChess Lite. No extra bells and whistles, just a regular chess board, play against the computer though. Logo has beautiful translucent chess pieces and is cheaper than Deep Green. Chesspuzzles (free) is OK.
CJ Curtis
on 10 Dec 08“I just want to find the guy that used purple for a pushbutton and beat him with his mouse.”
LOL. The sad part is that it was probably a $10 million contract, chock full of usability panels, focus groups and design meetings. Not the machines…just the controls.
andy
on 10 Dec 08My favorite chess game is made out of wood, and there’s no requirement that you own an iPhone to use it.
John
on 10 Dec 08Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupery
This is why I really, really, really, REALLY hate bloatware.
Eric
on 10 Dec 08Is he Yogi Berra? His explanation does the opposite of what it’s explaining.
Scot
on 11 Dec 08Interesting that Craig Hockenberry of IconFactory and Twitterrific sees the options in developing iPhones apps as either “simple and cheap” or “complex and expensive”.
http://furbo.org/2008/12/09/ring-tone-apps/
same here
on 11 Dec 08Same, the last sentence is hard to understand
Mike Gowen
on 11 Dec 08He’s simply stating that making something simple is much harder to achieve than making it complex. It’s easy to throw every feature you can think of into an app. It’s much much more difficult to find the point where you have the least amount of features required to meet your goal.
Jeff Hartman
on 12 Dec 08That Mark Twain quote is superb.
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