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Originally Posted by afv011
I don't see this happening. We know how inflexible iOS is with resolutions; developers would have to rework all apps to run on yet another resolution.
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That's a bit misleading. Firstly, iOS isn't as inflexible with resolutions as many people seem to think - it's perfectly straightforward to scale interfaces automatically using using springs and struts, and iOS 6 introduced a more sophisticated auto-layout feature. Many developers choose not to use these, however, as a scaled interface doesn't always produce something as satisfying as a pixel-perfect design for a particular resolution. Android fragmentation means that developers often don't really have much choice but to use resolution-independent designs, but the number of iOS platforms is sufficiently small that it's often entirely feasible to design the ideal interface for each device.
In the case of a watch it seems vanishingly unlikely that a scaled version of an existing interface is what you'd want, so to claim that the need for a custom interface design is due to some perceived iOS limitation is misleading.
/JB