“Apple posted on its developers site that starting on June 1 all new watchOS apps submitted to the App Store must be native apps,” Chuck Jones writes for Forbes. “While everyone pretty much expected that this would be the case someday I suspect it is a bit sooner than expected since only the initial version of the Watch has been released.”
“This date is two weeks before Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) is scheduled to start so you can surmise that this will be a major topic of conversation,” Jones writes. “There has been a bit of chatter of a Watch refresh in the next few months but if it doesn’t appear soon it seems like it will be in time for this year’s holiday season.”
“Findings from a survey done by Fluent indicate that Apple’s Watch is more successful with users than various pundits believe,” Jones writes. “A little under half (47%) of Americans agree that ‘the Apple Watch is a successful product,’ with Apple Watch owners (77%) and regular Apple product users (62%) being much more enthusiastic. Exactly half of the American public believes that the majority of their fellow citizens will own smart watches 10 years from now, and 75% of current Apple Watch owners do.”
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MacDailyNews Take: If you don;t have an Apple Watch, chances are that you don’t exactly get it. That half of people who don’t fully understand the benefits of wearing an Apple Watch daily think the majority will be wearing them 10 years from now is quite amazing.
Again, if you don’t have an Apple Watch, you’re missing out.