Apple’s latest move to push health sensors into earbuds — and iOS 26’s Workout Buddy — changes the rules for people who buy wearables primarily to track exercise, and it raises a direct question: do you still need an Apple Watch to close your rings and monitor workouts?
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Apple’s next Watch cycle looks like a study in incremental engineering rather than a wholesale reinvention, with the Series 11 positioned as a tidy, feature-focused follow-up to the Series 10 rather than the disruptive overhaul some buyers hoped for. The prevailing narrative across leaks and the...