iPod started similar. Locked into a tight platform, expanded later. This is common Apple product development.
All I can say is, I would order an Apple watch right now, if I could use it without buying an iPhone.
I know they would sell a whole huge bunch of these, if they worked independently.
This market is just starting to take off.
I still wear a watch. I would very much like to make the watch I still wear, a phone.
I will probably buy some watch, which functions independently as a phone, in maybe a year. Give things a bit of time to see what will emerge.
I am definitely looking.
Apple I’m here right now.
Don’t wait too long, or I’ll buy a competitor’s watch.