App frustration

[profmjh]

I'm mostly loving my Apple Watch now, but I do find apps frustrating. They can be so slow to load. And when they do, they don't always work as they should.

For example, I just installed the Overcast app. Here's how it's supposed to look:

Here's how it actually looked:

My point: the podcast icons are generic so I can't tell what's coming up next, completely defeating the point of the app.

Apple's big thing is that "it just works". Well, not so much with the Apple Watch.

 

[bcaslis]

Are you using Overcast 2.0.1? Overcast 2.0 broke the watch app. With 2.0.1 I get the information shown except I don't get the icons (I get generic ones like you). I'm not sure if this is an Apple problem or a developer problem. But even though the watch app works (mostly) in 2.0.1, it's still not a native watch app.

 

[profmjh]

Are you using Overcast 2.0.1? Overcast 2.0 broke the watch app. With 2.0.1 I get the information shown except I don't get the icons (I get generic ones like you). I'm not sure if this is an Apple problem or a developer problem. But even though the watch app works (mostly) in 2.0.1, it's still not a native watch app.

Overcast 2.0.1 uploaded today, but I'm not sure if that happened after I installed (and then deleted) Overcast from the watch. I'll give it another go, but from what you say, my hopes aren't high.

I don't really get how developers can release apps that don't work.