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I'm happy to see new products and a competitive landscape but frustrated to see Apple (and others) using different development processes. It's already painful to write apps that work on all 3 major mobile OSes, but now watch app developers have a huge set of watches they need to develop for too.

Frustratating to see products each trying to compete using their own closed ecosystem, because it hurts developers and it hurts innovation.

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I understand your frustration, but I don't think products trying to compete with closed ecosystems hurts innovation. The smartphone race ushered a new era for software development. The new development process made it mandatory (in order to stay competitive) to reconsider your software for the specific hardware, which promoted some very good redesigns and innovation that would not have happened otherwise.

The only real way that could have happened is if a third party released a great smartwatch that was independent of the phone platform. Something like Pebble but higher-end. Unfortunately with Android Wear existing, I doubt there is still an opportunity for that.

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