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Developers can't do anything with the iWatch

by on11 March 2015


It is bloody useless

If Apple was hoping that developers would invent Apps for its overpriced iWatch, it is sadly mistaken. 

Software developers say it will not be easy to come up with a "killer app" for Apple Watch because it is pretty much a chocolate teapot. 

Much of the problem was that Apple could not get some key features to go and blocked some features, such as the gyroscope and accelerometer, on the development kit, and the watch simulator cannot test all functions, developers said.

Developers are saying that without those things the watch can only really tell the time. However some dafter developers are praising Apple for not giving them anything to work with.

One App designer Mark Rabo told Reuters that was Apple is spurring creativity though restraint and is forcing developers "not to take a phone app and cram it into a Watch."

So far Jobs' Mob has listed about 40 apps on its website as it unveiled its smartwatch but claimed there were "thousands" more in the works, it said. However the Watch apps showcased by Apple so far are mostly extensions of services like Uber, American Airlines and Twitter.

But what no one is actually pointing out that while Android smartwatches that have been on the market for two to three years, no one has come up with a killer app for them either. It looks like the iWatch is going into the market like many Apple products. It has no use to anyone but it has an Apple logo on it so people will be dumb enough to buy it.

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