watchOS 9: The MacStories Overview

Apple is doing what they have done with every version, just incrementally getting better.

• Improvements to the Workout app sound great. This is an obvious area for Apple Watch to get more capability in.
• I like that they are putting more in sleep but I don't see a watch as the device for this. I’m a convert to my Oura Ring for sleep tracking. Wearing a watch while I sleep is not comfortable.
• I really like the addition of medication, vitamin, and supplement tracking. That seems like an obvious extension.

Also sprinkled through here are several new features that "you don't need an iPhone to do". The Watches physical limitations will hold it back for longer than the iPhone, but someday it will break free of that tether, just like the iPhone broke free of the Mac, and that will be pretty interesting.