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Originally Posted by turtle
If for no other reason than diagnostics there will likely always be a port. Heck, I think the Watch even has a "hidden" port where the bands connect.
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Yup. Seems to be a micro-Lightning kind of port (albeit with fewer pins). Given the right dongle, you can get iTunes to recognize the Watch as a device.
Supposedly, Apple employees making Watch software have a hardware contraption where they can physically connect the Watch to the Mac in such a way that it works with Xcode, too. It's a bummer (and strange) that Apple won't let third parties do this; some of the more prolific devs have said that they'd happily pay hundreds more for an Apple Watch Developer Edition that makes testing easier. Right now, you have to hook up Xcode to the iPhone, and the iPhone in turn needs to wirelessly transfer to the Watch, and that in turn then opens a debugger session. It's a miracle that it works at all, and frankly? It often doesn't. And if it's true that Apple's own staff doesn't even use this byzantine approach, that's just silly.