Friday, 28 July 2017

Fitbit's smartwatch will launch with an app platform — whenever it launches

Fitbit chief executive officer James Park says that the company’s upcoming smartwatch will have an app platform and an app gallery ready to go when it launches, despite reports (including our own) that Fitbit’s smartwatch woes have extended to its software as well as its hardware production.

Park told The Verge that when Fitbit’s smartwatch launches, the company is going to be rolling out a software development kit (SDK) along with a select number of apps from specific partners; and that shortly after, the SDK will be available to all developers.

Fitbit is relying on software it acquired when it bought smartwatch company Pebble last year, which had a new, Javascript-based SDK in the works at the time of the buy. Park and Thomas...

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from
https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/28/16054300/fitbit-new-smartwatch-app-store-software-launch

from
http://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2017/07/fitbits-smartwatch-will-launch-with-app.html

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