“watchOS 3 is Apple’s most crowdsourced product ever,” Michael Simon writes for Macworld.
“Barely a year into the product’s existence, Apple is rebooting watchOS, dumping key features, reimagining others and dramatically changing the way we implement and interact with it,” Simon writes. “On its website, Apple says it “Feels like a whole new watch,” and it’s hard to argue that point.”
“At its introduction, Tim Cook called Apple Watch the company’s most personal product, but I think its connection goes deeper than the physical relationship. Apple is allowing watchOS to grow within the community that uses it, and our experiences with it will directly impact its evolution,” Simon writes. “watchOS 3 is Apple’s first truly crowd-sourced product, a direct response to its consumers’ real-world usage; feedback from users revealed that the watch is much more of a passive device than Apple envisioned.”
Much more in the full article – recommended – here.
MacDailyNews Take: Yet another of the myriad benefits of early adoption: You get to help define new platforms.
And, yes, it is quite stunning to witness how malleable Apple has proven itself to be with Apple Watch! With the release of watchOS 3, Apple Watch side buttons everywhere are going to be shocked at how much use they’re getting!
watchOS 3: It truly is a whole new Apple Watch. More info: apple.com/watchos-preview/