Third-party apps are doomed on the Apple Watch

The Apple Watch is undoubtedly a watch in expansion and there are details that prove it. At first when the watch was launched, all the applications or rather the developers did their best to be on the Apple device through the "mirror" from the iPhone.

I have to say that there are third-party applications that work really well on the watch, but there are many others that do not and therefore beyond "duplicating the apps" that we have on the iPhone on the watch, these they will end up disappearing from the wrist device in a short time leaving exclusive way to native applications for the watch itself.

All this will improve the experience with the Apple Watch

In principle the recent decision to delete these non-native applications on the clock as the most recent case where they have deleted Instagram of the Apple Watch, they should be good for the user since they will provide that really effective and fast user experience when the application becomes native. But there are cases where these third-party applications are well optimized such as Twetboot or Telegram, which in principle will not be affected by this measure.

The latest beta version released by Apple for the Apple Watch, 4.3.1 shows a warning like the one we have above these lines every time a non-native application of the watch itself is used, which is an unequivocal sign that Apple would be showing the path that the smartwatch operating system will take in the not too distant future, leaving third-party applications aside in future versions of watchOS that are not specifically created for the device. This measure can be good or bad, but what is clear is that the Apple Watch needs to improve in this regard and if in all this time it did not do so, it is possible that it is best to directly eliminate these types of apps and leave the ones created for the clock.


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  1.   noticeable said

    But hey, what a nonsense article. The editor has not heard of anything that has been read out there. What they are going to stop being allowed are Apple Watch applications that run on the iPhone, like the first ones there were. Now they will have to be native, run on the clock itself and not be a mere interface of an application that is actually launched on the mobile. But there will still be (of course!) Third-party applications. Only the way to program and execute them will have to be necessarily on the clock. The message appears when an application is programmed to the old mode (running on the iphone) and warns that if the developer does not update it and make it run natively on the clock, it will stop working.

  2.   Mac Daddy said

    Well No, he does not find out about anything. What Instagram what? I still have it on my apple watch and I keep receiving notifications as usual