When Wearables Meet The Cloud
March 30, 2015
Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Mike Vizard.
Now that Apple Watches that are set to arrive in April has everyone thinking about the potential of wearable device, it’s only a matter of time before solution providers across the channel are asked to develop applications that actually make use of these devices. With that in mind Salesforce.com unfurled Salesforce for Apple Watch when the devices were first launched. But Adam Seligman, vice president of developer relations for Salesforce.com (CRM), said the more interesting thing will be to see what applications developers create for the Apple Watch and other wearable platforms using Salesforce.com cloud platforms and application programming interfaces (APIs).
At the price points that the Apple Watch has been introduced at applications used by sales people and senior business executives are likely to be among the first to gain traction in the market. But Seligman notes that there will soon be a raft of wearable computing devices that can run applications built using the Saleforce1 software development kit (SDK)…
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