Last week, we brought word that the Apple Watch platform is rumored to receive quite a few notable updates in both the near and distant future. One of these rumored new updates, native Apple Watch app development, was recently confirmed to be in the works by Apple senior vice president of operations Jeff Williams. Williams made the announcement earlier today at the Re/Code annual Code Conference.
At the moment, third party apps don’t live on the Watch, like the Apple-made apps that come preloaded on the wearable. Instead, third party apps run on the paired iPhone and communicate with the Apple Watch, which displays the user interface and communicates the user input to the iPhone through Bluetooth.
