Apple Watch: 'Trying to match the structure of the iOS app was a mistake'

Overcast creator Marco Arment advises his fellow developers to avoid seeing Apple's smartwatch as a platform to port their apps to

Are smartwatch apps squeezed-down versions of smartphone apps, or more wrist-worn remote controls for the software running on the device in your pocket? Marco Arment thinks it's the latter.

Arment, who first came to prominence with read-it-later app Instapaper on iOS, is now focusing on his podcasts app Overcast, including its Apple Watch app. Which, just a few weeks after Apple's smartwatch went on sale, has already been redesigned.

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