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John Gruber On Third-party Apple Watch Apps: They Suck and Are Really Slow
An anonymous reader writes During this week's episode of John Gruber's podcast, The Talk Show, Gruber sat down with Joanna Stern of the Wall Street Journal to talk all things Apple Watch. About two hours and 9 minutes into the podcast, both Gruber and Stern began lamenting the poor performance they saw with third-party Apple Watch apps. 'It makes me question whether there should be third party apps for it at all yet,' Gruber noted. The pair also took umbrage with what they perceived to be a poor design choice for the Apple Watch app screen, with both noting that the app icons were far too small to be practical.
Apart from the gold model, the Apple Watch isn't any more overpriced than the high-end versions of Samsung smart watches.
With that said, we're still amazingly primitive to think that smart watches are a pretty neat idea.
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What's worse than the apps on an Apple watch?
A 2 hour podcast about the Apple watch.
Full disclosure: I was an Apple Core OS kernel team member at the time. I stole 7% of the kernel that runs on the things from Mach and BSD.
FTFY
Given that I also wrote much of the init.c in FreeBSD, you probably failed to fix that for me. :p
Eat my shorts.
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