“Starting Monday, Apple Inc. is giving its darling product a software makeover with Watch OS 2. It’s available as a free download to all Watch owners on Monday,” Geoffrey A. Fowler reports for The Wall Street Journal. “Coming five months after the watch’s debut, the update demonstrates the speed at which Apple is coming up with new ideas for what we can do with a wrist-top computer.”
“��ve been using the Watch OS 2 for a week and a half, and am happy to report Apple has made progress on my biggest problem with its watch—that it is just too slow,” Fowler reports. “It’s not just Apple apps that are faster. Third-party apps can run directly on the watch, instead of just mirroring information they draw from the iPhone. And they can do more, too, like directly tapping the watch’s heart-rate sensor.”
“Here are some apps that Apple says now run natively on an updated Apple Watch: WebMD, Dark Sky, Weather Channel, Citymapper and Zova. Later today, you can expect many more, including iTranslate, Foursquare and Pacemaker DJ,” Fowler reports. “A few other improvements also stand out: Time Travel; Custom Watch Faces; Connect to known Wi-Fi networks without iPhone; and Nightstand Mode. All of this makes the Apple Watch more useful. But it’s still a work in progress, most appropriate for those who don’t mind the ups and downs of a front seat to the future of wearables.”
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