The Digital Crown on the Apple Watch may be used to launch widgets instead of the home screen in the future, Gurman says. He also believes that the new widget-heavy interface will be optional.
According to Gurman, apps haven’t taken off on the Apple Watch, and users tend not to open them. Recent statistics show that the iPhone App Store has 101 million monthly users in Europe, whereas the Apple Watch App Store has less than 1 million. With widgets, Apple is acknowledging that people tend to use smartwatches differently from smartphones and is offering a way for developers to put useful data and updates in front of people.
