Developers are pleased: Apple Watch software performed well on Christmas

This is a good sign for 2016. What apps do you usually use on your Apple Watch?

Although it is already 2016, some data during the Christmas season is still worth reviewing. According to Weiphone, the external website Furbo recently released a list of download data for a certain Apple Watch standalone software around Christmas 2015, showing that the software had a significant increase from November 27 to December 27, 2015, with the largest increase on Christmas Day, and then began to decline.

Although this is only the download data of an independent software, it is enough to bring confidence to those confused developers. Because since the launch of Apple Watch, the number of independent software on the platform, that is, local software that can be used without the iPhone, is still very limited. It should be noted that developers were able to develop independent software for Apple Watch only after Apple released watchOS 2.

For the current Apple Watch, the two biggest problems are battery life and software ecosystem. The battery life problem may be solved by a hardware update, but the software requires long-term joint efforts of Apple and developers to gradually improve.

There have been rumors recently that Apple will launch the second generation of Apple Watch at this year's spring conference, but we have not seen any credible exposure yet. Apple has always been relatively reserved about the performance of Apple Watch in the market. They have not released sales data related to it, and Apple executives have been hinting that "market demand has exceeded their expectations."