Another Apple Watch app tracker. This one is from WatchAware.
I like the fact that they keep track of the number of shipping apps. Not sure where that number comes from or how accurate it is, but as of this post, there are 2,145 approved Apple Watch apps.
As I said in this post, I think that number will rise to over 100,000 by the end of the year. Might have to revise that number upwards if there are already 2,145. After all, the big wave of Apple Watches hasn’t even hit yet. Think we might hit a million Apple Watch apps by the end of the year?
Beyond some limit in the low to mid thousands the focus on number of apps is not only silly but counter productive. No one can meaningfully filter 1m apps… not even 100k, really. It’s the standard tech marketing BS… “we have X, oh yeah, our X is bigger!”
What’s far more important are the apps that take real advantage of being on a wearable, apps that can’t be done on phones (or that could but are far more powerful when on a wearable). Those I think will take a year or so from this next WWDC to emerge.