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There's Little Hard Data on How Consumers Use Wearables, Says Research Firm

Lacking hard data on how consumers plan to use wearable technology is the biggest challenge app developers face in building support for those wearables, Clutch said in a Wednesday report. The research firm interviewed 15 app developers and found designing…

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support for the Apple Watch “is not an easy task," it said. "Because user patterns are totally new, there is no known and established interaction model for the smartwatch user interfaces that works,” it said. Other development challenges include the difficulty of developing support “without the wearable device on-hand for testing,” it said.