Re: Let's talk about apple and what they came out with yesterday.
The Apple Watch is the only thing that caught my attention, because of LTE. But it only works with "Approved" carriers, you need to share carrier between watch and phone, and--at least at the moment--there's a monthly recurring fee. So, that's a no, then. For now, anyway. My second-gen watch with Wi-Fi is just fine, in many many cases. Give Apple time to iron the bugs out, and widen the net of supported carriers, before considering a new watch. Or buy it now, to future-proof yourself, if that's your whim.
For the loss of the App Store in iTunes, the trick is tethered caching or the caching service, both built in to macOS as of 10.13 High Sierra (previously, you had to purchase macOS Server separately to use the caching service). Of course, for the se, you need a Mac--either one running on your local network to offer the caching service, or one to which your iOS devices attach directly via USB, for the tethered cache. It is regrettable, indeed, that Apple did not see fit to make these features integral to iTunes, so that it could be used by Windows users. However, it does solve the problem that using the native App Store app on each device consumes bandwidth for every download of the same content, and really, it is an elegant solution when implemented.
The other major downside for Windows users has been the loss of iBooks management. You can't use iTunes to manage a library of books in one place, both those bought by iBooks and those you import into your library. For a long time now (since OS X 10.9 Mavericks) this has actually been a Windows advantage, since Mac users have been forced to use the turd that is iBooks for Mac. However, if you take precautions to manage any external content in a directory of your own, you should never lose data. Either access the files over the network with iOS, or else use iTunes to manually copy-paste those specific files (it works for tones, too, by the way). Additionally, you can go all cloudy, at the expense of having no local copies of books at all, if that is your preference (it's not mine, personally).
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