Correct. Apple products work well together, but also make it a huge pain in the ass if you don't buy everything from them. The kids have apple products and we can't manage them effectively because we don't have apple devices. This provides a strong disincentive to want to give them any more money.

Samsung was only mentioned because are there any other real competitors to a full smart watch?

Garmin will likely keep me because running gps for 10+ hours at a shot is important. A full smart watch is far less of a priority.

(On Sunday I ran for roughly 10.5 hours, GPS active the entire time. When I finished, I had 33% of my battery left.)