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Apple Watch on watchOS 2 Hacked to Run Truly Native Apps Including 'Canabalt' and 'Flappy Bird' Clone
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Oh wow you're serious... but I mean who doesn't want to watch netflix in 4k with a microscope...I can almost guarantee that someday people will actually be interested in this. Why? Imagine if the Apple Watch was powerful enough to provide all the applications and services you use daily. Netflix, Hulu and such streaming straight from your watch to a TV. You'd have an entire entertainment center with you at all times! Would be great for parties.
What a backward, awfully phrased headline. How about using the word "programmed"? Does this really involve "hacking" when they are using official Apple dev tools to build an app? And what does "truly native" mean? It's native... it's watchOS 2. The OS doing what it was designed to do.
First off all, the word "hacked" is the antecedent to Apple Watch, not watchOS 2. So you are saying the *hardware* was "hacked"?? And does watchOS 2 run on other devices I don't know about? "iPhone on watchOS 2..." would indeed be "hacked".
And phrasing the hardware *on* the OS is weird. You don't say "Retina iMac on Mavericks hacked..." It's almost always phrase OS *on* hardware ("Mavericks on Retina iMac", "iOS 9 on iPad mini"), do you?
Or does "on" mean "running"? Why not use "running"
First off all, the word "hacked" is the antecedent to Apple Watch, not watchOS 2. So you are saying the *hardware* was "hacked"?? And does watchOS 2 run on other devices I don't know about? "iPhone on watchOS 2..." would indeed be "hacked".
And phrasing the hardware *on* the OS is weird. You don't say "Retina iMac on Mavericks hacked..." It's almost always phrase OS *on* hardware ("Mavericks on Retina iMac", "iOS 9 on iPad mini"), do you?
Or does "on" mean "running"? Why not use "running"
Sorry to ruin your beautiful rant but the watchOS 2 SDK doesn't let you run code in apps. And to make a game, one would need to run code in an app. Meaning that to do that, there must've been a... Wait for it... Hack!!
It is not about playing the game on the watch, but BEING able to PLAY it on the watch. It is testing the capabilities and exploring the options that Apple will not allow yet.
really... game on IWatch instead of 4.7" IP6 or 5.5" IP6+ or 7.9" Ipad Mini or 9.7" Ipad. backward aren't we.
Ahh 4k output is not the same as a 4k display. Either we that's pretty much something you can already do with a phone. I'm sure it'll eventually make it to a watch.
Now you all can play your favorite bird game on the Apple Watch without jailbreaking:
http://BirdieOnWatch.com
http://BirdieOnWatch.com
Sorry to ruin your beautiful rant but the watchOS 2 SDK doesn't let you run code in apps. And to make a game, one would need to run code in an app. Meaning that to do that, there must've been a... Wait for it... Hack!!
I think you need to clarify what you wrote, because WatchOS 2 definitely allows running code inside an app.