Gratuitous jab at Adobe much?
I mean, I do...
But what has that to do with the iWatch?
Good Lord, iWatch runs Flash now?!?!?
...Cirdan...
Five days after delaying the release of watchOS 2, Apple has posted an update for its smartwatch operating system. The watchOS 2 update brings the introduction of native apps for the Apple Watch, a new set of privileges that will allow developers previously limited to iOS applications the ability to access the Watch's …
Last year I bought a TI MSP430-based watch to play around with it, it will probably be the closest thing to a "smart watch" that I'll ever touch. I've been using it to display the public keys to my bastion boxes when you put it in the right mode. This way I can be assured that my connection hasn't been tampered with by any of the spy agencies and I can ensure it never leaves my body since it doesn't set off metal detectors and the customs folk don't even bother with it and thus compromise the keys.
I got one of those TI MSP430 development kits as a present a while back, and spent a little time this summer playing around with it. Not really practical (this is early-release hardware and software and the watch crashes pretty regularly), but fun. And yes, I expect it's the closest I'll ever want to come to a "smartwatch".
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I've seen just one useful application of an iWatch. I was lucky enough to get a flight with a display pilot, and he showed me how he used an ipad to input a flight plan with a specific time-on-target. He then sync'ed the data to his watch, which displayed 2 continuously updating variables - first the necessary speed to achieve that target and second the direction.
When we were up in the air, 5 minutes late due to departing ryanair flights getting priority, we deleted one of the waypoints, the watch displayed the updated figures which of course were now quite different to the initial flight plan and we made it to the target at the absolute correct time (and did a mock dambuster run on Carsington water at exactly 14:35)
So, if you're a member of the niche market of probably 1000 display pilots worldwide that want to make your life a bit easier, I think this might be quite a good purchase. Of course being mad is part of the job description, which helps.
Also why those sort of core features not in original version?
So the impression is low quality rushed software with too much effort into appearance. Thus the current version will also be full of bugs and exploits. You don't patch in or test in quality, it's designed in then carefully implemented. Sounds like they need a careful redo from scratch.
"So the impression is low quality rushed software with too much effort into appearance"
But don't you get it? It's from Apple.
Apple.
That means it's wonderful, and perfect. Even if it has flaws, it's perfect. It's from Apple.
You don't understand*.
* And nor do I.
I've got an old Timex that's got one of these -- default its used to set the time and date but you can access it from your applications. (Did you know that watches that ran applications have been around for a decade? Sure, the technology's a bit limited, the processor is just a Z80 variant and there's hardly any RAM to work with, but at least the battery lasts a year or so.) Its just another Apple 'feature' that they've appropriated and made their own.
(As for the modern watch, I bought a Andriod watch off a Chinese site for $23 and change (shipping included). 's OK, especially for reading texts, but I don't find talking to my wrist particularly convenient. Maybe I should look at writing it a few applications. If I can be bothered.)