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One of the Apple bigwigs made a self-deprecating joke about this at a recent Apple event. I forgot which one, but it was something like "annd... you can now even set more than one timer. Will technological wonders never cease!"

I thought it was interesting because a.) it showed they were aware of how common the frustration was, and b.) man it takes the world's leading tech company a lonnnnnng time to implement a feature that is about as simple as features get, if it isn't one they invented themselves.




If I recall correctly, it was Craig Federighi at last year’s WWDC.


Yep. It's exactly 2323 seconds in to the WWDC 2023 keynote. The quote is "we truly live in an age of wonders."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYkq9Rgoj8E&t=2323s

I carried an Android daily for this use case, since I use multiple timers throughout the day. I appreciate that they acknowledged, even if in a tounge-in-cheek way, that this should have happened sooner.


Yes, that was it!

The delivery of that line, deadpan, was so well-done I laughed out loud. That's why I rememebered it, even though I don't personally ever need to set multiple timers.




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