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The amount of well-designed and truly useful apps is (understandably at this point) rather limited. I assume it will be a while before developers really have some good idea what makes sense in this form factor and what doesn’t.
An additional culprit at this point is the pretty severe lag many third party apps show when updating data, or even starting at all. I very often experience the screen turning itself off before an app has even finished loading and updating. And truly well-done apps like Living Earth (which is gorgeous on the watch) frequently come up with data from one or two days ago… The watch paradigm somehow suggests immediately visible information, and even these minor interruptions clearly hamper the idea. Really hope that Watch OS 2 and native apps will solve some of this. At this point I really only use the stock apps…
The amount of well-designed and truly useful apps is (understandably at this point) rather limited. I assume it will be a while before developers really have some good idea what makes sense in this form factor and what doesn’t.
An additional culprit at this point is the pretty severe lag many third party apps show when updating data, or even starting at all. I very often experience the screen turning itself off before an app has even finished loading and updating. And truly well-done apps like Living Earth (which is gorgeous on the watch) frequently come up with data from one or two days ago… The watch paradigm somehow suggests immediately visible information, and even these minor interruptions clearly hamper the idea. Really hope that Watch OS 2 and native apps will solve some of this. At this point I really only use the stock apps…