Apple's new smartwatch doesn't even have a proper release date yet and the war is already well and truly underway between the Apple Watch and the plethora of Android-powered alternatives that continue to beat it to market. Unsurprisingly though, the Apple Watch has already made some friends in the technology space and one notoriously outspoken figure is sounding the battle cry in Cupertino's favor.
With the weeks and months ticking down until Apple announces the release date for the Apple Watch, developers are already working on getting their apps ready for launch day. Apple made the WatchKit SDK available as part of the new iOS 8.2 betas not that long ago, and while developers are hard at work, the concept makers and design teams are also working to publish their interpretations of what apps may look like come Apple Watch day.
Consumers are anxiously waiting for the release of the Apple Watch, but it seems that right at this minute in time it's a twenty-year-old timepiece that's attracting the most attention. It's a little known fact that the intelligent timepiece announced by Apple in September of this year isn't actually the first watch to bare the famous Apple logo. In fact, over the course of the Cupertino company's history there have been numerous watches offered by Apple, although they have usually been created as part of a promotional push for other products. As they wait patiently for the modern Apple Watch to drop, customers are keeping themselves busy by snapping up one of those aforementioned creations, dating way back to 1995, before most of Apple's product range as we know it even existed.
The Apple Watch is still weeks away before consumers can slap it onto their wrists, but that's not stopping some designers from coining up concepts and designs for new apps for the wearable, including one that lets you skip the lines at Starbucks for your morning java needs.
We want the end of 2014 to fill you with wonder and amazement, like the climax to any year should, so we've taken a look at TIME Magazine's annual round-up of the year's best inventions in an attempt to reassure the technology loving world that innovation and creativity has been present throughout 2014.
The smartwatch industry has continued to evolve and expand over the past couple of years, and with the Pebble start-up campaign having been credited with forging this new-found product group for wrist-worn tech, many of the biggest names in the mobile arena have since joined the party. From Samsung to LG, Motorola to Sony, a host of powerful companies have already rolled out wearables, and most of them run Google's Android Wear. But as is the case in the smartphone and tablet industries, Apple will soon offer a fierce rival to the Google-made platform, and if you're looking to build apps for Apple Watch, the video tutorial embedded below will help you get off the ground.
We still don’t know exactly when the Apple Watch will be available to buy, but today developers got their first look at the tools that they will use when creating apps for the wearable. Released via the same Apple Developer Center as iOS and Mac SDKs, the new WatchKit is available to all iOS developers as part of their existing developer subscription.
iOS 8.2 beta download just went live for supported iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices. iOS 8.2 beta 1 release comes only a day after Apple released public final version of iOS 8.1.1.
Now that the new iPhones and iPads have been released, consumer excitement and anticipation has moved towards the fabled Apple Watch - the device which, according to Jony Ive, took three years to create.
Using a traditional, metallic key in this day and age is not the done thing, particularly when you're staying at one of the finest hotel chains in the business. But while swipe cards and NFC fobs have been a part of the hotel scene for a long time now, Starwood Hotels is just introducing a system that allows iPhone and Apple Watch owners to securely enter and exit their rooms via Bluetooth LE.
















