How Apple Could Meet Us Halfway with Third-Party Watch Faces
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How Apple Could Meet Us Halfway with Third-Party Watch Faces
When it comes to Apple’s platforms, there are a few specific features that users have been eagerly clamoring for over the years. Touchscreen Macs are high on that list, along with the ability to download apps from third-party app stores. One feature that seems to have been near the top of people’s wish lists for almost as long as the product has existed is custom third-party watch faces for the Apple Watch. Apple has long rebuffed these requests, with the assumption being that the company doesn’t want to spend time going down the route of developing APIs and tools for such a feature.
I’ve been thinking a lot about this recently and the way Apple previously offered us a taste of one particularly popular feature before rolling out the fully-powered version. More and more, I think Apple could test the waters of third-party watch faces without breaking too much of a sweat. Here’s why.