A new news article has been posted!

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9to5Mac has confirmed with a source with knowledge of Niantic's plans that the Pokémon Go Plus app for Apple Watch has been canceled for now. On September 7th, 2016, Apple had a Special Event at San Francisco’s Bill Graham Civic Auditorium where they announced some their new products for the upcoming year. At the event, Niantic CEO John Hanke had a segment during the presentation where he discussed the current status of Pokémon GO and he announced that Pokémon GO Plus for Apple Watch would be released by the end of 2016. That app will not be released as planned now.


Source: https://9to5mac.com/2016/12/17/pokemon-go-for-apple-watch-cancelled/

This isn't surprising at all. While the app looked awesome and had some neat tie in functionality, the price of entry to use the app is pretty high requiring an iPhone and an iWatch. Niantic probably looked over their market research to see the number of users that would actually use the app and realized that their development time could be better put to use on something else.

And mere minutes after sites began posting that the app had been canceled, Niantic's damage control comes out in full force to say that the app is not canceled. They are cutting this pretty close with Christmas only a week away.