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I completely forgot about this product over the past week until just now. I would have loved to order one, but since there is no development ecosystem, I don't

I completely forgot about this product over the past week until just now. I would have loved to order one, but since there is no development ecosystem, I don't see myself buying this at the moment.

criddell 9y ago
Do you think they will open up the ecosystem?
- minikites 9y ago
  I think they got burned a bit by how terrible watch apps are so I wouldn't be surprised if they take a much more deliberate and planned approach.
  - kristofferR 9y ago
    That's more a function of SDK limitations and hardware capabilities. Here's one example: https://marco.org/2017/09/24/what-watch-podcast-apps-need https://marco.org/2017/09/24/what-watch-podcast-apps-need
  - Clubber 9y ago
    I remember when the iPhone came out, and developers saw it as an opportunity to make some money (and possibly some retire now money). I was in that bandwagon and made some decent buy a car money. The apps were overall good quality, and definitely not scammy, IMO. It didn't last though, the big scam type companies with large budgets and big backers took over years ago by winning the race to the bottom. I think that probably bled into the watch platform, and will probably be a problem for any new Apple platform. (I don't own an Apple Watch, so I'm just guessing that's what happened).
  - joeblau 9y ago
    Watch apps were definitely an interesting release. The first version of the Watch was extremely underpowered with a very limited SDK. I also think that Apple was trying to figure out what the Watch was for until version 3. Now it's actually useful. As far as being deliberate, Apple has kinda always had botched software release since the iPhone. Steve Jobs touted web apps that you would bookmark as the way to build initial iOS apps until Apple released an SDK for the second iPhone. The iPad's software is finally coming into form with iOS 11. The Watch struggled for the first two versions. They seem to be on a pattern of — Try stuff, keep what works, throw away what doesn't.
  - jxdxbx 9y ago
    Watch apps sucking at first was entirely Apple’s fault since the implementation was terrible. Now that the hardware is faster and watch apps can be more standalone there are lots of good ones: Carrot Weather, Fantastical, Drafts, Authy, and 1Password spring to mind
- joeblau 9y ago
  I don't know, but I hope so. I worked at Amazon when the Alexa was released and one of the things people love about Alexa are the custom skills. I've heard that the store is a bit of a mess, but they have some cool integrations.

I completely forgot about this product over the past week until just now. I would have loved to order one, but since there is no development ecosystem, I don't see myself buying this at the moment.

criddell 9y ago

Do you think they will open up the ecosystem?

minikites 9y ago
I think they got burned a bit by how terrible watch apps are so I wouldn't be surprised if they take a much more deliberate and planned approach.
- kristofferR 9y ago
  That's more a function of SDK limitations and hardware capabilities. Here's one example: https://marco.org/2017/09/24/what-watch-podcast-apps-need https://marco.org/2017/09/24/what-watch-podcast-apps-need
- Clubber 9y ago
  I remember when the iPhone came out, and developers saw it as an opportunity to make some money (and possibly some retire now money). I was in that bandwagon and made some decent buy a car money. The apps were overall good quality, and definitely not scammy, IMO. It didn't last though, the big scam type companies with large budgets and big backers took over years ago by winning the race to the bottom. I think that probably bled into the watch platform, and will probably be a problem for any new Apple platform. (I don't own an Apple Watch, so I'm just guessing that's what happened).
- joeblau 9y ago
  Watch apps were definitely an interesting release. The first version of the Watch was extremely underpowered with a very limited SDK. I also think that Apple was trying to figure out what the Watch was for until version 3. Now it's actually useful. As far as being deliberate, Apple has kinda always had botched software release since the iPhone. Steve Jobs touted web apps that you would bookmark as the way to build initial iOS apps until Apple released an SDK for the second iPhone. The iPad's software is finally coming into form with iOS 11. The Watch struggled for the first two versions. They seem to be on a pattern of — Try stuff, keep what works, throw away what doesn't.
- jxdxbx 9y ago
  Watch apps sucking at first was entirely Apple’s fault since the implementation was terrible. Now that the hardware is faster and watch apps can be more standalone there are lots of good ones: Carrot Weather, Fantastical, Drafts, Authy, and 1Password spring to mind
joeblau 9y ago
I don't know, but I hope so. I worked at Amazon when the Alexa was released and one of the things people love about Alexa are the custom skills. I've heard that the store is a bit of a mess, but they have some cool integrations.