Apple Unveils watchOS 6 With Dedicated App Store, New Apple Watch Faces and Native Apps

jasoncordelle said:
I tend to agree with you, but I assume this is aimed at those people that leave their iPhone at home and wear a cellular Watch and want to download a specific purpose-driven app?
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Indeed and that’s fine...but I can be pretty confident I won’t ever touch the app beyond the first week, just as I’ll never open the Cycle app which I can see is also useful to a lot of users but definitely not me.

We need the ability to remove these first party apps from the interface, especially as it’s a single level flat, none foldered view, so you can’t easily dump/hide unused unremovable apps as you can on the phone/iPad.

I want more apps...as there’s a chance I might find an occasional one useful. But I don’t want to see the ones not personally useful to me.

I’ve often wondered why there hasn’t been an anticompetitive driven split of the apps from the os to be honest, just as happened with Explorer and Outlook when they were part of Windows...it seems odd that the Cycle or Audiobooks and others aren’t just regular apps available that we choose to get from the AppStore rather than being something we only get, and get updated, with a full os update.

Most of the WatchOS 6 updates flagged in the keynotes aren’t what I would consider actual OS updates, they are app provisions that could have easily happened 3 or 6 or 9 months ago ‍♂️
 
RollTide1017 said:
Do we know yet if any of the new watch faces will be available the series 3 or older users?
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Nope... we get a few new pride watch faces and some ugly abominations called Numerals Duo and Numerals Mono. All the cool new watch faces are Series 4 only.
The Modular watch face is now broken. The three complications on the bottom row like to randomly go blank.
It's still a beta, so my expectations are not high at the moment.
 
rjohnstone said:
Nope... we get a few new pride watch faces and some ugly abominations called Numerals Duo and Numerals Mono. All the cool new watch faces are Series 4 only.
The Modular watch face is now broken. The three complications on the bottom row like to randomly go blank.
It's still a beta, so my expectations are not high at the moment.
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Those numeric ones are hideous. How hard it is to have hours, minutes, seconds on one line in the middle as an option?
 
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