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The phone is how you configure, update, etc. the watch. So I'm betting you need a phone for all the initial setup, and then you can leave your phone at home and
by malyk 9y ago
The phone is how you configure, update, etc. the watch. So I'm betting you need a phone for all the initial setup, and then you can leave your phone at home and go on a marathon run and take phone calls while you are out and about.
- robbyking 9y agoYep! That's exactly what they said in the demo.
- valuearb 9y agoI have an iPad. If I get this watch why do I need an iPhone too?
- cschep 9y agoyour ipad doesn't have a phone number :)
- girvo 9y agoMine does!
- anarchimedes 9y agoCould you use T-Mobile's DIGITS and apply that to the watch?
- make3 9y agowhy couldn't you do that with a computer or an ipad, or an older iphone? ofc you could. Just Apple being really greedy, as we are getting used to
- bobsil1 9y agoMobile is the new PC. Config on the dominant platform is simplest.
- knodi 9y agoOnly what will android people do for their bad choices in life.
- King-Aaron 9y agoContinue to not care about apple watches, probably
- FussyZeus 9y agoBased on how Apple tells us to develop the apps, you have to do anything bigger than a bread box on the phone. The obvious reason is battery life; every CPU cycle spent doing something in the watch that could be done in the phone is waste. Less waste = better battery life.
- monochromatic 9y agoYou say that like it's a bad thing. Greed is what corporations are for. Greed--and nothing else--drives businesses to provide things that their customers value.
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- dpatrick86 9y agoGreed implies excess.
- monochromatic 9y agoWho decides what's excessive?
- tinus_hn 9y agoIt's a conspiracy I tell you! Or perhaps the USB plug doesn't physically fit in an iPad or older iPhone. No, it must be Apple trying to sell everyone these Windows PCs that can restore iPhones!(you never needed anything but the phone and a sim with subscription to activate it)
- MrFoof 9y agoThis seems similar to the iPhone prior to iOS 5. Prior to iOS 5 you needed a computer to activate the phone. Only with the introduction of iOS 5 could you activate an iPhone without a computer. My guess is the ability to have an Apple Watch as a standalone device is at least another year away, possible another 2 to 3.
- MR4D 9y agoI wonder if they would use FaceID and Siri to configure it, given the lack of a big screen.