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As First Watches Ship, Apple Opens App Store for New Device
The Wall Street Journal Blogs ^ | April 23, 2015 | By DAISUKE WAKABAYASHI

Posted on 04/23/2015 12:58:29 PM PDT by Swordmaker


Brendon Thorne/Bloomberg News

Apple opened the App Store for its Apple Watch Thursday, just ahead of the first shipments reaching customers who pre-ordered the new device.

The store is third branch of the App Store, alongside areas hosting apps for the iPhone and the iPad. Apple says more than 3,000 Watch apps will be available when the store opens later Thursday.

The Watch has a smaller screen than the phone or tablet and must work in tandem with an iPhone. That’s forcing developers to decide whether a Watch app should be an extension of an iPhone app, or a separate experience.

Ariel Michaeli, chief executive of appFigures, an app-store analytics firm, said developers are experimenting with both approaches.

“I think the market will go through a long period of testing,” said Michaeli. “If we learned anything from the iPhone, we learned that users control the direction.”

After initial reluctance to opening the iPhone to outside developers, Apple opened the App Store in 2008 and now actively courts developers. When the iPad debuted in 2010, it added a section for apps catered to the tablet’s bigger screen. App Store sales totaled roughly $15 billion last year.

Apple has told developers that interactions on the Watch should last 10 seconds or less. It designed a feature called handoff to let users move easily between the Watch and the iPhone, so an activity can start on one device and finish on the other.

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1 posted on 04/23/2015 12:58:29 PM PDT by Swordmaker
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To: Swordmaker

Zzzzzz...won’t be owning one of these.


2 posted on 04/23/2015 12:59:49 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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To: ~Kim4VRWC's~; 1234; Abundy; Action-America; acoulterfan; AFreeBird; Airwinger; Aliska; altair; ...
Apple's new Apple Watch App Store opens with 3000 Watch Apps. — PING!


Apple Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

I have been threatened by a member of Freerepublic that if I post anything again, he will offer Jim Robinson $2000 to banish me permanently from Freerepublic on the grounds I am, according to him a "faggot," I am not homosexual, my girlfriend finds that uproariously hilarious, as do my two daughters. He claims this because I use Apple products and ping the 700 members of the Apple/Mac/iPhone/iPad/iOS ping list to articles about those topics. . . Which he maintains come from a "faggot" company. He maintains all Apple users are "faggots."

I challenge the members of the Apple ping list to each donate at least $10 each to the latest Freepathon to counter such extortion. I HAVE donated $100. Many members of the Apple Ping list are already rising to the challenge. Join them. Let's show the power of the Apple Ping list in supporting Freerepublic!

If you have ordered an Apple Watch,
MAKE A DONATION TO THE FREEPATHON!

3 posted on 04/23/2015 1:03:27 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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To: who knows what evil?
Zzzzzz...won’t be owning one of these.

Then take the money you'll be saving and donate to the Freepathon!

4 posted on 04/23/2015 1:04:23 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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To: Swordmaker

Made it this far without a “smart watch”


5 posted on 04/23/2015 1:04:57 PM PDT by Leep (To put it in laymen's terms liberal/progressive ist coo coo.)
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To: Swordmaker

All Apple users are faggots? Sure glad I don’t own any Apple products...any good news is welcome after today’s Lynch vote.


6 posted on 04/23/2015 1:07:47 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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To: who knows what evil?

Im just gonna wait for the mandatory government installed brain chip.


7 posted on 04/23/2015 1:10:49 PM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: GraceG

I’m sure it will be right along...


8 posted on 04/23/2015 1:13:49 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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To: who knows what evil?
All Apple users are faggots? Sure glad I don’t own any Apple products...any good news is welcome after today’s Lynch vote.

Since I am certain I am not homosexual (Ask my girlfriend), and I am an Apple user, the syllogism "all Apple users are faggots" fails. To overcome the bad news and do something to fight the know nothing Republicans in Name Only in Congress, make a donation to the latest Freepathon!

9 posted on 04/23/2015 1:24:46 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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To: Swordmaker

Who’s the closeted homo that made that threat?


10 posted on 04/23/2015 1:49:30 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Leep

Come on, don’t you want to help overseas 80 cents an hour wages?


11 posted on 04/23/2015 1:51:23 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Swordmaker
I challenge the members of the Apple ping list to each donate at least $10 each to the latest Freepathon to counter such extortion. I will be donating $100. Let's show the power of the Apple Ping list in supporting Freerepublic!

I'm a monthly donor, and donate more in Freepathons. I'll donate $100 on your behalf. Who is the fudge-packer harassing you? Swordmaker, you provide a valuable service to us on Free Republic. The troublemaker is nothing but a jerk, idiot, and so full of bile that he is destroying this site. I used to think that Free Republic was a wonderful site of conservatives who could debate rationally and keep things mellow between us. Lately, that has not been the case because of fools like the Apple-haters who are so vile. Because of that, I haven't been donating as much as in earlier years. This used to be a wonderful place. Please name the bad Freeper publicly and I'll donate $200. He probably gives nothing to support this site. (Yes, I'm replying on all new threads you mention this, because the jerk needs to go away.)

12 posted on 04/23/2015 2:00:56 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: who knows what evil?
Zzzzzz...won’t be owning one of these.

Then how about skipping the thread if it doesn't apply to you? Or not throwing a useless comment in the face of people interested in the thread.

13 posted on 04/23/2015 2:04:25 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: Swordmaker
He maintains all Apple users are "faggots."

Ted Cruz uses an iPhone.

14 posted on 04/23/2015 2:09:31 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep
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To: GraceG

“I’m just gonna wait for the mandatory government installed brain chip.”

Do not set it on vibrate!


15 posted on 04/23/2015 2:11:15 PM PDT by Leep (To put it in laymen's terms liberal/progressive ist coo coo.)
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To: Swordmaker
...all Apple users are "faggots."
What a strange analogy...
16 posted on 04/23/2015 2:40:21 PM PDT by moose07 (Islam and the New Stone age: A book i've not yet written.)
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To: Swordmaker

I guess I’m not the target audience for this watch. Seems silly. I do love other apple products and they’ve collected plenty of money for me. We have 3 IPads, an IPhone, and at least 4 types of IPods. Great company, great products, but I’ll stick to my “old fashioned” Rolex Submariner...


17 posted on 04/23/2015 2:46:06 PM PDT by strider44
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To: roadcat

Guess it wasn’t worthless if it got a rise out of you, sport.


18 posted on 04/23/2015 3:42:37 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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To: who knows what evil?
Zzzzzz...won’t be owning one of these.

By the way...not insulting the Applebots (didn't even know there was such a thing until I looked around the forum); I just have no particular interest in the item, and I don't care WHO manufactures the device. Like it says in the Book of Timothy: "And having food and raiment let us be therewith content."

I admit to going overboard with a cheap computer, but that's about it. :-)

19 posted on 04/23/2015 4:03:00 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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To: Swordmaker

That’s quite amazing, Swordmaker!!

These APPLE-HATER TROLLS are definitely not real conservatives, but are CONTROL-FREAKS ... a sort of dictatorship on boards and forums. This is definitely not conservatism!

These control-freaks need some serious psychiatric help!


20 posted on 04/23/2015 4:08:03 PM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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