Ondrej Holzman We have known about the Apple Watch since September of last year, during the autumn tools for creating applications were provided to developers, but everything still has one catch - the watch is not on sale, so developers cannot try their applications in practice. Except for a select few. Apple let selected companies into its laboratories, where it made the Watch available to them.
To the secret rooms, which are strictly guarded and there is no signal in them, according to Bloomberg they got developers from Facebook, BMW or United Continental Holdings. Roughly a month before the Watch went on sale, for the first time they were able to try out their apps in a way other than the developer simulator. According to 9to5Mac with overall acted by more than a hundred developers.
However, this does not mean that Apple has in any way reduced the guarding of its expected product. There is no internet access inside the rooms where he had the developers of the watch apps tested, and nothing but the source code of the apps is allowed inside.
Apple even went so far that the discs on which developers bring coded applications remain at the company's headquarters. She will then return them to the developers as the Watch's release date approaches. It is very likely that Apple has told selected developers more than its tools, which are otherwise freely available, reveal.
Together with the release of the Apple Watch, we can look forward to applications from Facebook or BMW, for example, but depending Cult of Mac se they got also smaller indie developers who have already achieved success on Apple platforms into the secret laboratories.
