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I get the impression a lot of this is due to the lack of native apps -- since every app is just running on the phone, it's guaranteed to be slower than the spee

by FreakyT 12y ago

I get the impression a lot of this is due to the lack of native apps -- since every app is just running on the phone, it's guaranteed to be slower than the speed of your phone. (And, as the author here points out, that adds a significant incentive to just pull out your phone instead of using the watch.) I wonder when Apple plans to add native support to the WatchKit SDK -- in a few months? A year? Or maybe they'll just wait for the second generation.

cheshire137 12y ago
I didn't realize the apps run on the phone. So this means that unless I have an iPhone, I couldn't even use an Apple Watch?
- FreakyT 12y ago
  > unless I have an iPhone, I couldn't even use an Apple Watch That's the case with everything the watch can do, I believe. I know it can only receive notifications from iOS devices, and I'm pretty sure that, similar the original iPhone, it won't even tell the time without first pairing to an iPhone. (The original iPhone wouldn't do anything without first being connected to iTunes).