Your Apple Watch Is About To Get Faster And More Powerful

With these new changes coming this fall.

"We really believe deeply in this space," Apple CEO Tim Cook told the audience at Apple's annual Worldwide Developers' Conference. "We believe in technology designed for the wrist and we believe by opening up the platform that you will create new and powerful uses that today we can only begin to imagine,"

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Until now, developers have had to customize iPhone apps to run as so-called extensions on the watch.

But apps created with the new software development kit, Watch OS 2, will be able to tap directly into the hardware's features, like the heart-rate sensor, microphone, the Digital Crown (the navigation tool), and the Taptic Engine (which buzzes you when you get a notification).

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