It seems to me that there is some kind of wrong perception of the WatchOS abilities.
After reading all the Apple docs, and exploring, this is what i know :
- No gyroscope or magnetometer (compass) API's , which means there are so many things you can't know without them about the user.
The accelerometer, is only working when the app is in the foreground/background for limited time.
If you want to know what happened during the day with the watch , you can check your
Health app, and get some picture about the accelerometer.
The thing about 3, is due to limited power consumption, you don't get high sampling rate, as you would get when the app is in foreground , which means again ,you can't know even with the accelerometer whats really happening during the day. catching the small gestures .
Am i wrong about something here assuming the WatchOS 2.1 ?
Can you really learn about a user without these abilities ? for example like what you get in the Jawbone app ?
The "fitness" thing is not really there, developers can't barely do nothing .