Brendon Thorne/Bloomberg News
Posted on 04/23/2015 12:58:29 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Apple opened the App Store for its Apple Watch Thursday, just ahead of the first shipments reaching customers who pre-ordered the new device.
The store is third branch of the App Store, alongside areas hosting apps for the iPhone and the iPad. Apple says more than 3,000 Watch apps will be available when the store opens later Thursday.
The Watch has a smaller screen than the phone or tablet and must work in tandem with an iPhone. That’s forcing developers to decide whether a Watch app should be an extension of an iPhone app, or a separate experience.
Ariel Michaeli, chief executive of appFigures, an app-store analytics firm, said developers are experimenting with both approaches.
“I think the market will go through a long period of testing,” said Michaeli. “If we learned anything from the iPhone, we learned that users control the direction.”
After initial reluctance to opening the iPhone to outside developers, Apple opened the App Store in 2008 and now actively courts developers. When the iPad debuted in 2010, it added a section for apps catered to the tablet’s bigger screen. App Store sales totaled roughly $15 billion last year.
Apple has told developers that interactions on the Watch should last 10 seconds or less. It designed a feature called handoff to let users move easily between the Watch and the iPhone, so an activity can start on one device and finish on the other.
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Zzzzzz...won’t be owning one of these.
If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.
I have been threatened by a member of Freerepublic that if I post anything again, he will offer Jim Robinson $2000 to banish me permanently from Freerepublic on the grounds I am, according to him a "faggot," I am not homosexual, my girlfriend finds that uproariously hilarious, as do my two daughters. He claims this because I use Apple products and ping the 700 members of the Apple/Mac/iPhone/iPad/iOS ping list to articles about those topics. . . Which he maintains come from a "faggot" company. He maintains all Apple users are "faggots."
I challenge the members of the Apple ping list to each donate at least $10 each to the latest Freepathon to counter such extortion. I HAVE donated $100. Many members of the Apple Ping list are already rising to the challenge. Join them. Let's show the power of the Apple Ping list in supporting Freerepublic!
If you have ordered an Apple Watch,
MAKE A DONATION TO THE FREEPATHON!
Then take the money you'll be saving and donate to the Freepathon!
Made it this far without a “smart watch”
All Apple users are faggots? Sure glad I don’t own any Apple products...any good news is welcome after today’s Lynch vote.
Im just gonna wait for the mandatory government installed brain chip.
I’m sure it will be right along...
Since I am certain I am not homosexual (Ask my girlfriend), and I am an Apple user, the syllogism "all Apple users are faggots" fails. To overcome the bad news and do something to fight the know nothing Republicans in Name Only in Congress, make a donation to the latest Freepathon!
Who’s the closeted homo that made that threat?
Come on, don’t you want to help overseas 80 cents an hour wages?
I'm a monthly donor, and donate more in Freepathons. I'll donate $100 on your behalf. Who is the fudge-packer harassing you? Swordmaker, you provide a valuable service to us on Free Republic. The troublemaker is nothing but a jerk, idiot, and so full of bile that he is destroying this site. I used to think that Free Republic was a wonderful site of conservatives who could debate rationally and keep things mellow between us. Lately, that has not been the case because of fools like the Apple-haters who are so vile. Because of that, I haven't been donating as much as in earlier years. This used to be a wonderful place. Please name the bad Freeper publicly and I'll donate $200. He probably gives nothing to support this site. (Yes, I'm replying on all new threads you mention this, because the jerk needs to go away.)
Then how about skipping the thread if it doesn't apply to you? Or not throwing a useless comment in the face of people interested in the thread.
Ted Cruz uses an iPhone.
“I’m just gonna wait for the mandatory government installed brain chip.”
Do not set it on vibrate!
I guess I’m not the target audience for this watch. Seems silly. I do love other apple products and they’ve collected plenty of money for me. We have 3 IPads, an IPhone, and at least 4 types of IPods. Great company, great products, but I’ll stick to my “old fashioned” Rolex Submariner...
Guess it wasn’t worthless if it got a rise out of you, sport.
By the way...not insulting the Applebots (didn't even know there was such a thing until I looked around the forum); I just have no particular interest in the item, and I don't care WHO manufactures the device. Like it says in the Book of Timothy: "And having food and raiment let us be therewith content."
I admit to going overboard with a cheap computer, but that's about it. :-)
That’s quite amazing, Swordmaker!!
These APPLE-HATER TROLLS are definitely not real conservatives, but are CONTROL-FREAKS ... a sort of dictatorship on boards and forums. This is definitely not conservatism!
These control-freaks need some serious psychiatric help!
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