{"id":128622,"date":"2015-06-08T20:34:39","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T18:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=128622"},"modified":"2015-06-08T20:36:25","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T18:36:25","slug":"native-apple-watch-apps-now-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/128622-native-apple-watch-apps-now-possible.html","title":{"rendered":"Native Apple Watch apps now possible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has revealed a new version\u00a0of its\u00a0WatchOS, the software that powers its Apple Watch.<\/p>\n<p>Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed that WatchOS would now support native apps &#8211; confirming rumours leading up to Apple\u2019s 2015 World Wide Developer Conference on 8 June 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Apple Watch could only provide an interface to apps that were running on an iPhone it was linked to.<\/p>\n<p>The new version of WatchOS is available to developers immediately, said Cook.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More Apple Watch and iPhone news<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/128616-big-upgrades-for-ios-9-announced.html\"><strong>Big upgrades for iOS 9 announced<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/128612-os-x-el-capitan-unveiled.html\"><strong>OS X El Capitan unveiled<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/128594-new-iphone-coming-soon-report.html\"><strong>New iPhone coming soon: report<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/127118-crazy-price-for-apple-watch-from-takealot.html\"><strong>Crazy price for Apple Watch from Takealot<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new version of the operating system for Apple Watch has been announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":121422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[36,605,18170,30922],"class_list":["post-128622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-active","tag-apple","tag-apple-watch","tag-watchos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128626,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128622\/revisions\/128626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}