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Re:What we need from Apple to make standalone Apple Watch po... by alexee on Monday September 25, 2017 @10:17AM (#15330674)
Why do you think it isn't there? Actually I bought Apple watch series 2 for exactly this reason, running without a phone. It has everything you need (GPS+heart rate monitor+music), and you can even have podcasts with third-party apps.
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Re:What we need from Apple to make standalone Apple Watch po... by jakobegger on Monday September 25, 2017 @11:45AM (#15331362)
Wasn't the whole article about how standalone podcast apps on the watch aren't possible? What 3rd party apps allow playing podcasts on the Watch without iPhone?
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Re:What we need from Apple to make standalone Apple Watch po... by jonknee on Monday September 25, 2017 @12:40PM (#15331877)
There may be some half assed solutions, the article was why a good standalone podcast app isn't currently possible.
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Re:What we need from Apple to make standalone Apple Watch po... by canuckintime on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @03:35AM (#15336868)
did you know about Watchcast[1]? It's been offering offline Watch podcast playback long before Marco failed at the feature and requested new APIs...

[1] https://brianmcburney.github.io/

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Re:What we need from Apple to make standalone Apple Watch po... by anonred on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @02:09PM (#15341158)
Watchcast has the same issues Marco brought up. Developers should not condone Apple's overly-aggressive platform limitations by sacrificing good UX just to release a feature.
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