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iOS Hacker Shows Web Browser Running on Apple Watch
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LOL OMG!!! I thought you were joking. I didn't even see that comment when I posted. That's too funny.
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"It's all in the wrist" has a new twist now!
Android Wear has an app a developer created that isn't a hack. I've used it once or twice, but the real estate, loading time and practically make it a parlor trick mostly. Something fun to try here and there. One or two sites actually work decently. But clearly mobile sites have gotten "richer" since smartphones are powerful.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appfour.wearbrowser
Some screen shots, etc..
Similar to how the iPod was a failure based on a lot of comments at the time when it came out. Those are some rather hilarious threads to revisit.
Well a complete failure - it just took over a decade and millions in profits to finally die
Awesome! I was waiting for this before buying my watch. Now I will find a nice BT keyboard and use my watch as the 2nd screen to my desktop.
Dude. Spreadsheets? Such an amateur. I want Final Cut Pro X on myWatch.
I want to be able to run autocad on it so I can design a 3d apple watch on my apple watch! Then I want to be able to AirPrint it to any 3d printer #
Or at least give me the ability to run windows on it!
Seems like the only people saying this anymore are ones that are jealous of those that have one. Having more orders than one can handle sounds like the opposite of a failure. All three watches in my household are complete and utter successes. Absolutely love it.
The first version were far from that popular and had quite some flaws. So people were correct in a lot of cases to comment .
Apperently rewriting history is also done for brands now?
I'm fairly surprised by the amount of people saying "useless", "not usable", "cool but impractical" like the guy seriously made safari run on a watch for everyone to use?
C'mon it's a freaking proof of concept, nobody will browse the web on a watch
All he did was to show the community that apparently there's much more inside the little device than 'app glances' and an ugly mickey and butterfly watchfaces.
Hopefully this will mean a jailbreak is possible and us developers will be able to start developing native watch apps or just anticipate someday there will be an official SDK for doing so.
C'mon it's a freaking proof of concept, nobody will browse the web on a watch
All he did was to show the community that apparently there's much more inside the little device than 'app glances' and an ugly mickey and butterfly watchfaces.
Hopefully this will mean a jailbreak is possible and us developers will be able to start developing native watch apps or just anticipate someday there will be an official SDK for doing so.
Ah nitpicking on some isolated facts to try to make it look like there was a point still. What first generation (or even beyond) device doesn't have some flaws? As a product the iPod was beyond even good as far as how it did for Apple. Most of the comments about the iPod being a failure were from the overall product point of view. Similarly the statements that are being made about the watch being a failure are about it as a product in general, and are rarely specific to just the first generation. Rewriting those comments to make it seem otherwise doesn't change what the comments were actually saying.
More like the guy who got out of the Black Hat scene when he found out there was bigger and more honest money to be made than hanging with the warez crowd.
As a native iOS/android developer who is rewriting a mobile web phonegap application into a fully native application. I beg to differ.
In terms of a business standpoint the penny counters go gaga over the fact that they can hire one developer to build a mobile website as an app for two platforms rather than hire two developers.
But any engineer who says that mobile web apps are more powerful or better in every way than native is committing a huge disservice and crippling the entire project.
I'm worried that if browsers are allowed on watchesI'm specifically looking at Androidthat we'll start to see watch.facebook.com and other watch prefixed subdomains and then we'll be required to make extremely stripped down little web apps to run alongside other content and then the whole purpose of responsive design gets chucked. I think Apple has it right with glances and this is a prime example of how apps are sometimes superior to the web. Although it is more work for App Developers. I'm currently toying around with making some watch design comps for our app but I can't really find a clear reason for it yet.
Considering how popular platforms like Twitter and Instagram areit's kinda crazy how out of the box, they seem perfect for the watch. Tiny bits of information and square photos. Boom. Things like that from the web should belong on a watch. Not a website about a business or whatever.
This is the crux of the matter: I think many applications will have the same problem.
No doubt there will be some good applications (usage scenarios) for the Watch; it will be interesting to see whether enough of them actually offer a better experience or improve functionality enough to make it a mainstream device. Perhaps better voice recognition will become key.
Nitpicking? The first couple of versions did not sell all that well due to wrong design choices . I dont recall it being called a failuer but it wasnt until it was improved sales drasticly increased.
So there was quite some just criticism on the first cople of generations.
It seems to me that any criticism is being labeled as "you deem it a failure just like for every apple product and every apple product was always from the start a succes"
There is some just criticism in the apple watch and there was certainly just criticism on the ipod that didnt mean those people all considered it a failure or a useless product, just that it could be improved a lot.
You're kidding, right?
Oh. Wait. Maybe you're looking at it from Google's perspective.
The "97% of our revenue comes from ads, especially banner ads" perspective.
So yeah, for Google it's browsers-or-die. The rest of the world is moving on.