Apple Watch Is and Isn’t

Re:Apple Watch Is and Isn’t by aaronbrethorst on Monday September 15, 2014 @01:20AM (#8317403)

    At best I think Smartwatch apps will
    just be secondary notification displays
    for apps you're already buying and
    putting on your phone.

My expectation is that the only way an app will get on your Apple Watch is if it comes bundled inside of an app you have installed on your iPhone, a la iOS 8 extensions.

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Re:Apple Watch Is and Isn’t by cromwellian on Monday September 15, 2014 @02:05AM (#8317482)

Which is how Android Wear apps work.

But this is not the kind of story presented at the keynote. What they presented was intensive interaction with apps: dragging, panning, zooming, etc.

I think any usable watch app is going to have to be pretty simple and lightweight on the interactivity side.

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Re:Apple Watch Is and Isn’t by aaronbrethorst on Monday September 15, 2014 @02:06AM (#8317485)

I think you may be responding to a different point than the one I was making. I was speaking only to the deployment mechanism for Apple Watch apps.

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