Apple iWatch To Run Full iOS Platform

The Apple iWatch will not leave iOS users wanting. A new rumor suggests that the Cupertino-based company is hard at work on developing its first generation watch with a full version of its popular mobile device platform. In the new report it is suggested that Apple is planning to launch the new watch by the end of the year, but only if Apple can tackle the battery problem. A source tells The Verge that the watch currently gets about two days on a single charge and Apple is shooting for a four to five day charge window.  That time frame would make sense since the Pebble, the iWatch’s most likely competitor, currently lasts that long on a single charge. Moving towards iOS instead of a scaled down OS version as the company did with its Nano product actually makes a lot of sense. First, users will have better cross-platform compatibility and second the company will only have one base-line of code to work with, thus improvements will be streamlined and arrive faster for all of Apple’s mobile OS-based devices. There is the very real possibility that Apple may release the Apple iWatch, examine user reactions to a full iOS and then modify the [...]

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