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Native apps coming to the Apple Watch this fall, thanks to an SDK

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<p>One of the biggest problems with third-party apps on the Apple Watch is that they don’t run natively and can’t gather data directly from the Watch’s own sensors. This makes them more sluggish and feature restricted to Apple’s own apps (http://www.macworld.com/article/2920534/every-built-in-apple-watch-app-ranked.html)—they simply can’t keep up (http://www.macworld.com/article/2921717/how-third-party-running-apps-stack-up-to-apple-watchs-workout.html).</p><p>But Apple will soon open up more possibilities for Apple Watch development, according to Jeff Williams, Apple’s operations chief and the executive in charge of the Apple Watch. On Wednesday, Williams told Walt Mossberg (http://recode.net/2015/05/27/apple-operations-chief-jeff-williams-takes-the-code-stage-liveblog/) at the Code Conference that developers would get an Apple Watch SDK at this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference, which kicks off Monday June 8 (http://www.macworld.com/article/2909668/apple-announces-wwdc-2015-dates-mark-your-calendars-for-june-8-12.html) in San Francisco.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2926943/native-apps-coming-to-the-apple-watch-this-fall-thanks-to-an-sdk.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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