Small Display Bedevils Some Apple Watch Apps

The 3,500 apps available for the Apple Watch show the devices promise and pitfalls.

Nobody needs an Apple Watch, or any kind of smart watch, really; we havent quite figured out what to do with these things yet, beyond activity tracking and replicating the alerts you already get on your smartphone. But that isnt stopping app makers from trying to figure out more things to do with wrist-worn gadgets. There are more than 3,500 apps available for the Apple Watch, which started selling this month from Apples website (though if you order now, you probably wont get one until June).