Or, one day, people who want an Apple Watch as their only device. That limits the potential user base of the Apple Watch-and excludes people who might want to only own an Apple Watch and a Mac or iPad and no iPhone.
It also recently launched a mode for kids called Family Setup that allows the watch to operate without an iPhone-but only in specific cases.Apple itself has added several new apps to the watch, including a calculator, the Find My service, contacts, shortcuts, reminders, audiobooks, voice memos and news, allowing the smartwatch to handle more functions that otherwise would force users to pull out their iPhone.Apple also lets developers write Apple Watch-only apps, programs that don’t have an iPhone companion.
Over the past several years, Apple has added new features for third-party apps, allowing them to either reduce or drop reliance on an iPhone for sending data.In 2019, Apple added the App Store to the watch, allowing users to browse and install new apps without touching their iPhone.In 2017, the first Apple Watches with LTE were released, allowing most features-including streaming music and calls-to be used with the iPhone left behind.The Apple Watch doesn’t meet the Jobs vision for every Apple device being able to operate and exist on its own.Īpple has taken some steps over the years to push the Apple Watch in that direction, though: As any Apple Watch owner knows, an iPhone is required for activation and setup, syncing data and day-to-day operating. In other words, you can use any of Apple’s mobile devices-the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch-without even owning a Mac.īut seven years into the Apple Watch era, one of Apple’s most promising device categories still does things the old way. Out of the box, iPhones and iPads can now be set up and used entirely without a computer, and all of Apple’s devices receive their content from the cloud instead of a Mac. With iCloud and iOS 5 in 2011, Apple and Jobs changed that, making the cloud the hub for all of Apple’s devices. Before 2011, Apple’s ecosystem worked as such: The Mac was the hub from which the iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV and other devices received much of their content-like photos and videos. If you’re old enough to remember, you’ll recall that the iPhone, iPad and iPod required a Mac with iTunes to set up, activate and synchronize. As a refresher, Jobs’s big final push was what he called the “post-PC” era.
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