If it could make phone calls without an Iphone in your pocket, it might have a point - a reason for living!
Well right now it’s smart for them not to have it that way.
They have to establish a large watch user base first. To get people used to it and then to push for it to be a standalone device.
They need a better battery life ability and that’s why I think that port is for being body powered one or more ways.
See they want to get people used to paying with things electronically by their apple watch.
Apparently there’s some big move on credit card merchants to upgrade their systems to take more secure ways of payment. Apple is getting in right now as the upgrades take place. they have till october 2016 to get the new systems in place. Other wise merchants risk liability of fraudulent charges if they don’t and some customers’ accounts are hacked and if they find it’s due to the merchants’ in any way.
So there’s that.
Personally i think it’s paving the way to cashless society which I will not be a part of, 100%.