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Re:Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS on Saturday May 02, 2026 @06:57PM (#47991445)
Static tiles on a watch is the right call. Tried dynamic rendering on a constrained device once and pan/zoom got eaten by GC pauses every frame.
On edge this misses Durable Objects + alarms — same primitives, no polling, no Redis to skip in the first place.