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Google Play has a new section for Android Wear apps

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Jacob Kastrenakes
is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade.

Android Wear watches aren't in the hands of many just yet, but developers are already starting to publish their apps for them into the Google Play Store. It appears that a specific section for the apps went live yesterday, collecting a little over twenty of them on a single page, including Google's own apps and third-party apps like Pinterest and IFTTT. For now, it's a good place to browse if you're curious about how much these watches will really be able to do once they're actually on people's wrists. For some reason, though, the page isn't comprehensive: a number of Wear apps are missing from it at the moment, including an app for Evernote.

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