Does Samsung Not Give a Rip About 3rd Party?

[Guitar_Jesus]

There is an obvious complete lack of 3rd party apps for Tizen powered watches. Does Samsung not care at all? Do they really think their offerings alone suffice? I love my watch, it being the only decent standalone LTE watch is great, but I'm still underwhelmed. I'm looking forward to what Samsung offers next, but just can't see them trying to bring in developers to wrote code for apps on this platform.

Opinions?

 

[supersoulfly]

Maybe.

 

[11B1P]

I think you'd do better by asking the 3rd parties you don't see in the Galaxy Store, why they're not developing apps for Tizen.

 

[Adam Frix]

What's missing?

 

[cwbcpa]

I think you're barking up the wrong tree on this one. The 3rd parties would need to do the development. I'm sure Samsung would love to have more 3rd party support but it's not going to happen. I don't think it's that big of a deal myself. I didn't even use many third party apps on my Apple Watch. Some like to have them though. If that's the case then the Galaxy watch isn't a good choice.

 

[arunma]

I've never had a non-Samsung smartwatch. Are there any apps for Android Wear that people find useful? I used to complain about the empty app store, but then I realized I wasn't even sure what kind of apps I would even want in a smartwatch that I don't already have on my Galaxy Watch.

 

[Diamonddawg31]

I just wish they had more text messaging apps... Other than the Samsung messenger and pulse. I use Textra for my phone and wish they had Textra on the watch

 

[Adam Frix]

Doesn't matter. Texting from the watch works great, no matter what you're using on your phone.

 

[Diamonddawg31]

Doesn't matter. Texting from the watch works great, no matter what you're using on your phone.

Unfortunately Textra does not work on the watch for some reason. A problem with the reply and marked as read

 

[anon(113926)]

It could use some more sports scores apps. Only know of the ESPN gear app.