“One of the most significant announcements to come out of this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference was that Apple was opening up several of its core services—iMessage, Maps, and Siri—to third-party developers,” Dan Moren reports for Macworld. “While each of those systems have strategic applications, they also all happen to be services that work particularly well with one of the company’s other burgeoning platforms: watchOS.”
“The addition of SiriKit for tasks like ride-hailing, messaging, smart home controls, and workouts extend Siri’s utility even further,” Moren reports. “And while the initial available actions are limited, many of them are things one might want to do without resorting to one’s phone, which could potentially make Siri on the Watch a much stronger proposition…”
“watchOS 3 will get bolstered support for iMessage, given the many new features for the messaging platform introduced in iOS 10,” Moren reports. “Expanding Maps’ abilities via extensions should trickle down nicely to the Apple Watch, providing ways to access routing-related functions without having to use an iPhone.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: With watchOS 3, your Apple Watch really will feel like a whole new watch!
What a fun journey this new Apple wearable platform has been and continue to be! As we wrote earlier this month, we’re going to have to forget a lot of what’s by now become second nature and learn new ways to use our Apple Watches and that’s going to be FUN!!! We wouldn’t trade participating in this evolution of wrist-based computing for the world!
By the time the rest of the world gets their first Apple Watch, we’ll be like, “You have no idea, but enjoy!”
Yes, future iterations of Apple Watch will be better than those preceding it. And, yes, we wouldn’t miss the unique experience of the first generation, original Apple Watch for the world!
SEE ALSO:
Apple watched how we actually used our Apple Watches and adapted watchOS to fit – June 16, 2016
Apple reveals watchOS 3; faster, simpler with breakthrough health features – June 13, 2016
Apple’s watchOS 2 makes Apple Watch even more useful – September 21, 2015
watchOS 2 is a good start, but developers want more Apple Watch access – June 12, 2015
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
I have had the watch since day one and I know I don’t use all the features but one thing it does better than another is tell time. It always has the EXACT time no mater what – I have never had another watch this accurate as you always have to set to something else. I love my watch and can’t wait for the new OS. I would like 3rd party faces as well.
Well said Whatever, if that is your real name. 🙂
Are my grandma?
My grandma’s name is “grwisher”. She also has problems telling time on a wristwatch. You see grandma lost both arms in a milking accident years ago and is forced to wear her Apple Watch on her ankle. She can be a source of embarrassment for the family when she raises her ankle to check the time.
Most people believe that the first iPhone was a raging success at first and the it was hailed as true innovation immediately. This is not true as it was criticized for a lack of keyboard, low battery life, slow network, dropped calls, etc.
Like the first iPhone, the first Apple Watch has suffered much criticism. And IMHO will duplicate the trajectory of the popularity of the later iPhones and in the end will be judged as an innovative product.
Basically we can’t tell if a product is innovative at first because innovation, being new, is not embraced widely at first.
Love my watch as is. But cant wait for the refinments and changes in Watch os3 … They look fantastic.