{"id":24842,"date":"2019-04-02T15:21:47","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T19:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=24842"},"modified":"2019-04-02T15:21:47","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T19:21:47","slug":"kickstarting-watch-app-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/02\/kickstarting-watch-app-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Kickstarting Watch App Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Padraig\/status\/1111741091781328896\">P&aacute;draig Kennedy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Padraig\/status\/1111741091781328896\">\n<p>The single biggest thing Apple could do to kickstart Watch app development imho is to sell developer units that you can connect to directly with a wire, just like the ones Apple uses to do watch app development.<\/p>\n<p>(I made one of our developers work on the watch for a week and I feel guilty and am trying to figure out how to make it up to them.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atp.fm\/episodes\/318\">Marco Arment<\/a> has made similar comments. The more unpleasant an area of development is, the more people will want to do something else instead.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jcieplinski\/status\/1111742303331328000\">Joe Cieplinski<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jcieplinski\/status\/1111742303331328000\">\n<p>I second this suggestion. Wireless debugging of watch apps is still a nightmare.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/26\/watchkit-is-a-sweet-solution\/\">WatchKit Is a Sweet Solution<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/02\/major-apps-abandoning-apple-watch\/\">Major Apps Abandoning Apple Watch<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>P&aacute;draig Kennedy: The single biggest thing Apple could do to kickstart Watch app development imho is to sell developer units that you can connect to directly with a wire, just like the ones Apple uses to do watch app development. (I made one of our developers work on the watch for a week and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-04-02T19:21:49Z","apple_news_api_id":"7fed6e29-0e96-4a72-989d-844bbe996be8","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-04-02T19:21:50Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Af-1uKQ6WSnKYnYRLvplr6A","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1068,1212],"class_list":["post-24842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-watchkit","tag-watchos"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24843,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24842\/revisions\/24843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}