Apple Watch it should be launched in April, according to him Tim Cook, but there is a chance that someone in Cupertino has decided that the product can reach markets around the world much faster. According to some information obtained from Apple's partners, the American company asks them to complete the title development process by February 12. Their applications must be ready for use and good enough to be published in App Store, so there is interest in Cupertino to expedite the process of preparing the launch of the Apple Watch.
The requirement of those for the Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), it is not, most likely, related to a possible shipped launch of Apple Watch, the company intending to test the applications with the thousands of partners who use its smartwatch. Apple's main concern about Apple Watch is the battery life, and testing the applications before the official launch is a necessity to see what impact they have on the final autonomy. If Apple will receive the applications on February 12, then until April it has enough time to test them and give advice to partners regarding their improvement, so that at the time of launch everything is perfect.
A multitude of Apple partners and non-partners are developing applications for the Apple Watch, so when the product is launched we will definitely have something to install in it.
