As voice dictation gets better, answering email and messages on the watch lets me often just leave my phone at home.
I can imagine a future when many people only have a watch as their personal device but use other larger devices that are shared, instantly personalized by a watch.
Apple seems to fundamentally believe that Macs are single user systems, and it's shown in their past few major releases.
Privilege escalation attacks that require access to the console are usually discounted as unlikely.
Certainly, there have been a fair amount, but not for lack of effort on the OS developers' parts.
It can always be better, and cutting edge, modern OS designs are superior, but it's not like the foundations of NT/Darwin are completely rotten.
Of course, my watch is good for mostly telling the time. My phone is good for browsing the web and playing games. And my desktop is good for software development.
So IMHO, I don't think this is the future Apple wants to embrace yet even though it appears to be the next logical step in computing for a lot of us.
Edit : fixing typos
Maybe Apple won't be the vendor for this.
This is a good idea succinctly put. Thank you. The building blocks are already there (e.g. Apple watch based unlocking for the Mac), and can be extended to spaces like the automobile (CarPlay, extending your definition of a "device" to cars).
Why is this important to you? Aside from going for a run I can't think of any situation where it bothers me to take my phone with.
Fair enough.
>I hate the distraction. I hate the lifestyle.
How does the watch change either of these? My phone is always on mute and I practice a pull behaviour pattern with it (I choose when to look, answer texts, calls etc) rather than a push (distracting) pattern.
With the watch, It is comfortable to check a notification and quickly respond to it but not much else.