Apparently Steve's posthumous roadmap focused on the idea that personal computers get 'smaller and closer to you' as time goes on. So the idea that an Apple Watch and AirPods could be all you need when travelling, etc. follows that premise.

I wish I could do this but I have yet to find a good Apple Watch replacement for owning and syncing music (rather than streaming it)

That was myexperience also but haven’t done that in some time.

You can sync your own MP3s using iTunes Match -- it's about $25/year. https://support.apple.com/en-us/108935

Incredible. I never heard of this paid feature before.

I use streaming now but historically I had no issues syncing music and playlists to my watch.

There's this really old product that Apple use to sell for all your music. I think it was the youPod or something...

I would love to do this.. if only there were Uber/Lyft options on the watch

There were back in the day. Apple really screwed up the development story for the watch as the initial watches just couldn't really do apps. They should have waiting for Series 3 before introducing apps and they still could do a lot to make things easier for devs.

Lame the Watch still can't be managed with an iPad or else you could go all in on this idea.

more that is is lame the watch isn't just an fully independent device yet.