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The
tech giant’s legion of independent developers will get a preview
of a new software kit for the two-month-old Apple Watch at the
Worldwide Developers Conference, Jeff Williams, Apple's senior
vice president of operations, said at a recent tech event.
Like other Apple products, the watch’s commercial success will
likely hinge on a compelling collection of apps. But early apps
for the timepiece have been tethered to the iPhone, placing some
limits on what developers could do.The expanded software kit
should lead to better and faster watch apps, said Bob O’Donnell,
an analyst at TECHnalysis Research.
Apps built with the new toolkit will likely start arriving in
the fall, Williams said.
Many analysts expect that Apple will use Monday's event to debut
a new music streaming service. The company behind the iPod and
iTunes has long been a leader in digital music, but it has lost
ground in recent years as subscription services such as Spotify
have caught on with consumers.
Analyst Van Baker of Gartner said he expects Apple to release a
new service to win a bigger share of the streaming business.
“This is catch-up for Apple,” he said.
An Apple spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for
comment.
(Reporting by Julia Love; Editing by Leslie Adler)
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