The Apple Watch does not interest developers, not until it gains independence

I am convinced that any holder of a Apple Watch If I read this article without mentioning WhatsApp I would think about it, so I will use it as an example and kill two birds with one stone. Every time an update of the most used messaging application on the planet for iOS is released, Apple Watch owners expect them to include the native application, look at the list of news and have to keep waiting. But why do some applications for the apple smartwatch take so long to arrive?

As any Apple Watch owner will know, the biggest new addition to watchOS 2.0 was support for native apps. Although there are users who have never complained about the operation of the Apple Watch, the native applications made its performance look improved. Although we might think that the Apple Watch already does everything, we would be wrong and, in fact, according to Realm, a company that provides information on mobile data of 100.000 application developers, these developers are less and less interested on the Apple Watch.

The Apple Watch must gain independence from the iPhone

We are seeing very few Watch apps every week. For every 1.000 new apps created for iOS, there are 10 apps for tvOS and maybe one app for the Watch.

Tim Anglade, Vice President of Realm, says that the interest in creating applications for the Apple TV 4 It is similar to the one at the launch of the Apple Watch, but he does not think they share the same future. Apple's latest set-top box can do (almost) everything, so any developer can be interested in launching applications for tvOS. On the other hand, Andrade says that interest in the Apple Watch will not return until it can run applications without depending on the iPhone. Will we see something like this at WWDC next to the presentation of watchOS 3.0?