You can see the same thing happening with the Apple Watch needing an iPhone as what happened with the iPhone needing a computer early on.
It wasn’t until iOS 5 that you didn’t need a computer running iTunes to activate and update an iOS device.
Apple has slowly been detaching the Apple Watch from the iPhone. First with a cellular connection and then with an independent Watch store and adding better APIs for third party apps.
Right now, you can get away with only having the Watch with you in day to day use and the phone company already assigns a dedicated number to the watch (even though you can’t use it), I can see in the next couple of years not needing a phone at all to use the watch.
You can see the same thing happening with the Apple Watch needing an iPhone as what happened with the iPhone needing a computer early on.
It wasn’t until iOS 5 that you didn’t need a computer running iTunes to activate and update an iOS device.
Apple has slowly been detaching the Apple Watch from the iPhone. First with a cellular connection and then with an independent Watch store and adding better APIs for third party apps.
Right now, you can get away with only having the Watch with you in day to day use and the phone company already assigns a dedicated number to the watch (even though you can’t use it), I can see in the next couple of years not needing a phone at all to use the watch.