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Here's why Apple Watch apps are freakishly slow. (aabajian.wordpress.com)
2 points by aabajian on April 18, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


Correct me if I am wrong, but none of the third party apps run directly on watch. They run on the phone. For more see https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Genera...


Hey ___Joker, that was my point in writing the article. For the non-technical out there, Apple has restricted 3rd party apps to run on the iPhone not on the watch. I was hoping that hardware access (such as the heart rate monitor) would be provided on the watch itself in some way. For example, if I wanted to poll the heart rate monitor every millisecond or so while the user is exercising, I wouldn't want every request to go through the phone. Instead, I'd like to put in an "if" statement that says if the person's heart rate goes over 120 notify them to slow down.


>> poll the heart rate monitor every millisecond

Every millisecond? Isn't that a bit overkill?




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