When it seemed that Mark Gurman had disappeared from the map when he signed for Bloomberg, the former 9to5Mac employee has been putting the machinery of the leaks to which we were accustomed for a few weeks. According to Gurman's latest post the next generation of the Apple Watch will remain almost entirely dependent on the iPhone, and I say almost completely because despite not having mobile connectivity if it will integrate a GPS chip that will allow all users who use it to monitor their physical activity, make use of the Apple Watch independently.
One of the problems that Apple Watch users have always expressed was the need to always carry the iPhone with us if we wanted to know at the end of the physical activity, all the route we had made, but the high consumption of the GPS, its main heel of Achilles, it has always been the main obstacle that all manufacturers have found not to add it in all the models launched on the market. If this rumor is finally confirmed, we will have to wait to see how Apple sells us the high consumption that this chip has when it is activated.
With this step, Apple continues to want to reduce dependence on the iPhone, but as long as it remains a necessary device for almost everything, its dependence will not be reduced, at least for the moment, since the GPS functionality will not be used by many users. In addition to this, the data would have to be stored on the Apple Watch also, not only the application that only acts as a bridge by obtaining the data of the application installed on the iPhone.
For now, what we are sure we can enjoy from September will be the next generation of watchOS 3, a new version of the operating system for the Apple Watch has mainly focused on improving the performance and speed of the device, especially when opening applications, something that many users have always criticized.