Apple Insider:
A message included in Apple’s first watchOS 4.3.1 beta warns users that older apps will no longer be supported in “future versions” of the operating system, suggesting support for software built with the watchOS 1.0 SDK could be deprecated with watchOS 5.
This is about watchOS apps built using outdated parts of the SDK. Another side of this: Will watchOS 5 continue to support the original Apple Watch hardware?
I’d be stunned if the Series 0 is supported in WatchOS 5. I say that as someone who owns one…. While I’d not want them to drop support just because, I also don’t want them to hold back on features just for Series 0 support.
To me that’s the real question about watchOS – what’s the direction of the device/platform? Do we really need anything past refinements of the series 3 with LTE?
I own a Series 0, too. I use it constantly. Like you, I don’t want them to drop support just because. But I don’t know what watchOS 5 would do for me that watchOS 4 doesn’t. It feels mostly like a finished product to me, and if there are software improvements they will probably be to support hardware improvements.
In some ways, I’m looking for an excuse to get a new watch anyway. Give me some amazing feature to move up to and I’ll do it. The series 3 is almost there already.