You're at the Westin Grand in Berlin having a luxurious vacation.
After finishing a delicious bowl of mushroom consommé -- chanterelles
are in season, after all -- you stroll up the lavish center staircase
toward your room. Having left wallets in the past, you simply hover your
Apple Watch over the door. "Click!" And that's that. Magnetic plastic cards are
so uncivilized.
This is the future Apple imagines for you with its new Watch, and
it's working with Starwood Hotels (the group that owns Westin, among
others) to make that future a reality. And that's just one of several
scenarios for Apple Watch that were introduced by Apple VP Kevin Lynch
during a third-party app demo on stage in Cupertino, California.
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Beyond Starwood, American Airlines is also working on Apple Watch -- both are using
WatchKit,
the software toolkit Apple built for third-party app development. The
specific context wasn't given for its use with American, but one can
easily imagine using Apple Watch as your electronic boarding pass.
City Mapper, a popular transit app on mobile, is getting an Apple
Watch version, as are home-automation apps from Lutron and Honeywell.
BMW is apparently creating a tool for finding your car with the Watch.
These are the "internet of things" applications for Apple Watch -- home
automation, location guidance, personal-object retrieval, etc.
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And then,
of course, there's stuff like Twitter and
Pinterest. Twitter is relatively fully featured from the looks of the
brief demo shown: You can tweet from it, as well as browse your timeline
and such. Pinterest acts more like a reminder list, letting you know
when you're physically close to something you've pinned.
We'll assuredly hear more about Apple Watch apps as the trio of
watches launch sometime in early 2015. And hey, maybe you're making a
really cool app? Or you know of one that's in the works?
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