Google Maps, Amazon, and eBay Drop Apple Watch Support [Updated x3]

[gnasher729]

Honestly as an iOS developer I have tried developing apps for watchOS, but the platform is just too limited.

I wish Apple made the watch much bigger. A 60 or 70mm version would be significantly easier to use and offer a LOT more functionality.

They have a four inch version called the iPhone 5 SE.

Look, it's a watch. Who do you think would put a 60 or 70 mm sized watch on their wrist? You'd look like a right muppet with that. Even Samsung wouldn't do that. (At least I hope so).
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Apple tries to pull the same crap with tvOS, and it's suffering the same reaction from developers. A near-perfect stifling of creativity, in stark contrast to iOS.

My iOS app supports AirPlay - that's all people need. You have to figure out an app that actually benefits from running on the Apple TV instead of using AirPlay.

 

[EightyTwenty]

Strapping an iPhone to your wrist gets old really quick, and your iPhone does a lot of things that are redundant - nobody really needs email or web surfing on the phone when you can go to any laptop or desktop computer to do that.Extrapolating from "I don't need this" to "nobody can need this" rarely works out well. I have one, enjoy using it, and find it useful. I didn't get it by mistake.

Horrible analogy, considering people actually DO need to (or want to) make phone calls, access emails and browse the Internet when they don't have access to a laptop or desktop.

With the Apple Watch, it is a REQUIREMENT that you must have your iPhone on you at all times just to be able to use the stupid watch.

If you were REQUIRED to carry around a MacBook Pro just to be able to use your iPhone, then the iPhone would be equally useless as the Apple Watch currently is.

The whole utility of the Apple Watch is that it saves you from looking at your phone... that you already have in your possession. It's completely ridiculous.

 

[CarlJ]

The whole utility of the Apple Watch is that it saves you from looking at your phone... that you already have in your possession. It's completely ridiculous.

It's completely ridiculous FOR YOU. A lot of other people find it useful. They have use cases where they find it substantially beneficial. Just because you don't doesn't mean it's useless for everybody. There are probably a number of items in your home that you find useful that I would find completely useless. Doesn't mean they're ridiculous, if they serve a purpose for you.

 

[visionar007]

Shazam would be more useful. Apple Watch apps should do one thing very well and just stick to that.

You do realize that Shazam has an app for Apple Watch, right? It's even advertised with it.

 

[brian3uk]

Would be nice to know when an item ships, delivers, a return was processed, or an item that you are waiting for stock is now available again. Or maybe you can set a price alert and be notified when it hits a target price you set.

There's plenty of things you can add for the watch - they are just lazy or stupid.

The Amazon app on your phone will send you notifications for almost all those things and the watch will mirror those same notifications all without the amazon app on the watch itself.