Every time we "swipe open" our mobile devices, we seek out dopamine hits from receiving new emails, texts, notifications, or other bits of digital media.
With this update, transit notifications become a bit more like using Maps for walking, biking and driving.
From what I've seen since the roll-out, Twitter's 'random' notifications feel a bit more cautious than Facebook's, which seemingly include all the activity of one's Facebook friends, from posted a picture, to made a comment, to changed a profile picture, etc.
Silence Slack notifications for a bit, or close that Gmail tab.
They float by, offering notifications like these: "Shifting bits... Reducing complexity... Opening flaps... Calculating odds... Refactoring Bezier curves... Herding cats... Rearranging deck chairs... To be honest, just downloading a firmware update".
It doesn't have an app drawer, meaning every app installed on the phone must be on the homescreen, resembles Apple's iOS with copycat features for Apple's Spotlight, time-based notifications lists and other bits and pieces.
I imagine that the notifications will take a bit getting used to, as I tend to not pay attention to my phone as much when I get home.
Each of them proceeds basically from the local data concerning only the currently served queue, although a fixed finite number of one-bit notification signals should be exchanged between the servers during every cycle.
Some participants had positive expectations such as excitement to try to give a death notification and a bit of an adrenaline kick to try to handle the situation.
5 minute High Order Bit — News and Notifications with Stacy-Marie Ishmael (Buzzfeed).
