Apple's Smart Smartwatch Play: Let Developers Find the Killer App - NYTimes.com

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"And it essentially punted on the question of the “killer app” for smartwatches — the feature that will make them indispensable in people’s lives. Instead, wisely, Apple turned that job over to its developers, with the WatchKit development platform.

As it arguably did with the iPad before it and maybe even the smartphone and personal computer before that, Apple did the hard work of building a device with a well-considered and usable interface, and then handed developers that workable canvas on which to draw."

Apple's Smart Smartwatch Play: Let Developers Find the Killer App - NYTimes.com