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Apps Won’t Make the Apple Watch

This week Apple executive Jeff Williams made an announcement that had Apple fans cheering: technology for better Apple Watch apps is on the way.

For those of you who haven’t played with an Apple Watch or read one of the myriad reviews, the third-party apps from thousands of developers like Evernote, Twitter and MLB are crummy. They aren’t very useful, but more importantly, they are irritatingly slow.

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