Sure. Garmin is still $5B in sales annually. Which is peanuts next to the iPhone, so you wonder why they even bother going after it. AirPods are a bigger business than that.
Kind of like how Collision Detection could have been an excellent Apple Watch upsell feature but was brought to all iPhones anyway.
They recognize the power of things like fall and afib detection for pushing into the ever growing consumer Health market.