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I wish Apple would make their watch work with Android phones, similar to how they made iPods work with Windows computers way back when.

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Or make them independent of the phone. It looks like iOS 13 takes some steps towards that independence. I’d honestly like to have a watch instead of my phone.

Exactly. We want the watch instead of the phone, not in addition to. And I’d like them both to use the same account and number. Why don’t these companies get it? They’ll probably shut down the divisions and say “nobody wanted wearables” despite never having unchained them as consumers desire.

Alternatively they could make their watch work without any phone (stand-alone).

Right now you cannot even set up a new Watch device without an iPhone.

I bet there are quite a few of us watching each of these announcements waiting for exactly that to happen, ready to click that buy button.

The only thing I'd miss dropping to a watch + decent point-n-shoot instead of an iPhone is live photos, which are maybe the most important feature to me from the iOS ecosystem released in the last, oh, decade. Only reason I'd even hesitate to go watch-only.

Not sure that would ever happen - the watch is often just a thin client for the iPhone so they’d have to port the majority of iOS to Android if they wanted to do that.

Yeah. Also how airpods work (including gestures) with Android so it's doable if they put in the effort.

I don't know if that's a good idea for them financially.

Right now the Apple Watch is the only thing keeping me from switching away from the iPhone.

If I could pair an Apple Watch with the Razer Phone 2, I would be so happy and never look back. And the problem will only get worse the next 5 years as folding screens come out for the very high end market.

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