Apple Watches and Planned obsolescence
Yesterday I came across something interesting and frustrating. Apple watches don’t need to be obsolete, themselves, to be unusable. If you try to pair an iphone 8 plus with an Apple Watch it will refuse because the OS is two generations too old. I tried to sync with the Iphone SE from 2020 and I am also having issues. The OS is 18.x so it should work fine.
It’s not just the watch that has to be kept up to date. The phone has to be up to date with the latest OS as well. If it isn’t then if you reset the watch for any reason, it becomes a brick. It seems absurd to me that a device that costs from 200-1200 CHF could become obsolete so easily, that its usability could be so fragile.