I recently bought a concept rower erg. You can connect your Apple Watch to it through an iPhone to track your heart rate and it connects to the iOS health and workout apps. Which is great and one of the main reason I chose the rower.
There is a holder that fits an iPhone and even the 12.9 iPad Pro. Unfortunately, since you can not connect the Apple Watch to the iPad, an Apple TV, or the Apple Watch directly to the rower; that means if you want to use the any of the apps that can connect the rower, have it read your heart rate, and sync with apple’s suite of health apps you have to use the smaller screen of the iPhone.
it is also a shame Apple Fitness + doesn’t sync with the rower. It would have been a great excuse to finally try it out. Seems like a missed opportunity.
A work around I figured out has been to mirror my iPhone to the Apple TV. That works pretty well, but it just wastes the battery of the iPhone and seems like it should be unnecessary.
The Apple Watch does have access to the Home app where it can control non Apple devices connected to an Apple hub. It can also control non Apple AirPlay speakers.
So my question is this: Why doesn’t Apple allow the Apple Watch to link to other Apple devices like the Apple TV, iPad, and Mac computers? I think most people who have an Apple Watch likely have multiple Apple devices. My household has 3 iPhones, 3 Apple Watches, 2 Apple TVs, 4 iPads, 2 HomePod minis, 3 HomePods, 1 beats headphones, 1 AirPods, 1 AirPod pro, and a MacBook Pro. We are in deep. I don’t think it would affect phone sales.
