First impressions on WatchKit

David Smith on WatchKit:

Apple took a clever approach to handling the extremely constrained power environment of the Watch (at least initially). To start with 3rd Party apps will run in a split mode. The Watch itself handling the UI parts of the app with an iPhone based app extension doing all the heavy lifting and computation.

Apple is being smart by moving in this way. Baby steps, as it happened in iOS with 3rd party apps.

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