“Despite never having laid their hands upon an Apple Watch, developers are feverishly crafting apps for the long-awaited wearable,” Alex Heath reports for Cult of Mac. “The independent developers that Cult of Mac spoke with are unabashedly delighted to take on the design challenge as they seek to colonize the next frontier of computing: your wrist. ‘There’s this natural extension of the device experience people have been itching for, and I think this is that next step,’ says David Chartier of AgileBits, the Canadian company behind 1Password, in an interview with Cult of Mac.”
“If Apple sticks to its current release timeline, developers now have about six months to get their apps ready,” Heath reports. “It’s clear that Apple sees third-party apps as vital to the Watch’s success, and devs see the new product category as a huge opportunity.””
Heath reports, “Many developers have already begun working on their designs using WatchKit, the collection of development tools Apple released last month.”
Read more in the full article here.
Six months? I’m hoping to get an Watch by the end of March!
Sadly, spring doesn’t officially end until late June. 😢
May 31st
Depends on who your officials are. Some follow the end of the month for the change, others follow the relationship of the earth with the sun. In the latter case summer solstice is June 21 (marks the official end of spring and the beginning of summer).
Gee, what a twist. Reminds me of the irony of having Monkey boy Balllllmer screaming on stage “developers developers developers” and this article of developers going “watch, watch, watch.”