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Posted on 05/10/2015 3:52:23 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Prominent community developer and jailbreaker Comex has posted a video showing a successful hack of Watch OS to get the device running a web browser.
In the video, Comex has managed to get the Google homepage to render on the small Watch display. Apple does not include a Safari browser app on the Watch, for obvious reasons. The video shows that scrolling around even basic web pages on a tiny display is impractical.
More importantly, the video shows that it is possible to get the Watch to run arbitrary code. This could be the first step towards a ‘jailbreak’ of the Apple Watch although Comex makes no such promises to ever release the details of his hack.
The video shows familiar iOS UI, like the Copy/Define contextual menu, which is an amusing look at the underlying software stack that powers the Watch. Watch OS 1.0 is actually a version of iOS 8.2 that runs a custom front-end layer to display the device-specific UI, called Carousel (Springboard is the iPad/iPhone equivalent).
To further prove the point, Comex also shows the Watch presenting the iOS dictionary view — again scrunched down onto the ~1.5 inch screen. Apple has announced a native SDK is in the works, which will allow the wider developer community to create apps that run code on the OS itself (rather than through an iPhone app extension a la WatchKit). Until then, community hacks like this are the first glimpse of what might be possible.
Apple said native third-party Watch apps are coming “later this year”. Many have took this to mean an announcement at WWDC, which runs from June 8th to June 12th.
>>The progress here is not in getting a browser to run on a watch. That’s just a stunt<<
Android had a watch app years ago. Apple is just a “me too” johnny come lately.
Your commentary does not rise to the level of Sophomoric, Freedumb. Boring.
>>Your commentary does not rise to the level of Sophomoric,<<
You are just no fun anymore. Childish, inane, void, repetitive, Frosh.
I liked you better when you actually said things.
I don't post things for your amusement, Freedumb. You are the one who seems to think you can insult people for fun
That makes you a bully. . . juvenile behavior. As I pointed out adult don't do that. . . only children do that, thirteen year olds. That is the level you have been acting like, not even up to the level of sophomoric. It is not my purpose to amuse you.
“You are just no fun anymore. Childish, inane, void, repetitive, Frosh.
I liked you better when you actually said things.”
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freedumb, this is a quote from your “About” page:
“...Conservatives have lost the ability to reason and debate and just go for the liberal low ring of ad hominem.”
Your comments/attacks on this thread make it clear that you have descended to this (ad hominem) low level of discourse on FreeRepublic. It’s not at all becoming for a FReeper and will serve only to help weaken this forum.
The facts do not support your assertion.
But thanks for playing.
Vanna has some lovely parting gifts for you.
None of them are apple products since the value to cost ratio is off the map. But you can enjoy the Android and Windows products (OK, just kidding — the interface layer for Windows is fatter than the rhinos in Fantasia — we would never tether you to them).
And you are still too angry to be fun.
Fan boys — whatcha gonna do?
You beclown yourself madame.
>>You beclown yourself madame.<<
Siri draw that one up for you, honey?
It is certainly devoid of meaning.
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