Archive - November 2014

Weekly Roundup: WatchKit is coming soon

Aaron Brethorst • November 09, 2014

David Smith, an indie iOS and OS X developer in Virginia, published a great, thoughtful writeup on what he expects to see for developers in the Apple Watch, both later this month and later next year. Smith summarizes what the initial rollout of WatchKit, scheduled for sometime this month, will offer to developers (seemingly feature parity with Android Wear devices, for better or worse). He then postulates, smartly,...

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Color me shocked—just shocked—that CurrentC, the ostensible competitor to Apple Pay, has some serious problems. It started with a story on Techcrunch about the "clunky" experience that CurrentC offers:

CurrentC uses QR codes displayed on a cashier’s screen and scanned by the consumer’s phone or vice versa to initiate and verify the transaction.

In comparison, if y...

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Control of the Week: VENTouchLock

Aaron Brethorst • November 01, 2014

VENTouchLock

VENTouchLock
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