If you want people to develop for your hardware, you'd better have an SDK. Buried inside today's announcements from Apple was word that the company will publish its WatchKit SDK for developers next month. There's still no definite word about a ship date for the Watch, other than "Early 2015." But by inviting the masses for develop for it, Apple is allowing outsiders to beat … [Read more...]
TAG Heuer Thinks That Maybe Wearables Are An OK Idea After All
Swiss watchmakers have this love/hate relationship with wearable tech. They pretty unanimously dismissed it. Now they're coming around, possibly spurred by Apple's hiring away Patrick Pruniaux, TAG Heuer's VP of sales. Now, the head of LMVH's watch business Jean-Claude Biver, says TAG Heuer is interested in making a wearable device, but that it mustn't copy the Apple … [Read more...]
Five Small Items in an Apple Watch Roundup
There's a bunch of little pieces in the news about the Apple Watch, none of them really worth their own abstract. So we're pulling them all into one briefing: -- Two hospitals will be experimenting with Apple's HealthKit software, coming at the end of this week in iOS8. Stanford University Hospital is working with Apple on bloodlessly measuring glucose levels. And Duke … [Read more...]
Smartwatch Coming From HTC?
HTC made the first Android phone and has built some sweet units since, although they've had some clunkers along the way, too. There have been rumors that they were coming after the watch business, too, but then there were rumors that they were spooked and backed off. Now, the company is reportedly back in. Cnet says HTC will release a smartwatch running a heavily modified … [Read more...]