1. Getting Started with WatchKit Programming

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works.

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Apple Watch is a smartwatch created by Apple and officially announced by Tim Cook during the September 9, 2014, Apple event. It is touted as the next big thing after the launch of the iPhone and the iPad, and is expected to change the rules of wearables (just as the iPhone changed the smartphone industry and the iPad changed the tablet industry).

The Apple Watch runs on the watchOS operating system, which is based on iOS. The original watchOS 1.0 was released on April 24, 2015, along with the Apple Watch. Barely two months after its release, Apple announced the ...

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