When hardware and software get things just right… It’s magic.
Yesterday Morning I woke up around 7:30 or so and go ready for work. Erica woke up as I was about to leave. She reminded me, that I forgot to remind her, that I wouldn’t be able to carpool her in to work. Instead she’d have to take the bus in. Not wanting to get out of a warm bed she went right for the iPhone sitting on the side table. She popped open Safari and went to King County Metro’s bus schedule to find her bus time. I got done brushing my teeth and noticed what was up.
Still wanting to beat the West Seattle Bridge to 5 north to 90 east traffic I just showed her instead how to use Google Maps on the phone. Quickly set the starting point as the current location, the end to her salon on California Ave. Swapping the directions to public transit, it showed the bus she’d normally take first thing. Then hitting the load more times showed all the times for the morning and the best time for her to catch the bus to arrive at work by 9:45.
Awesome, just awesome.