As part of its response to the United States DOJ lawsuit today, Apple confirmed that it at one point considered...
  • MeanEYE@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    6 months ago

    I love the ending here:

    9to5Mac’s Take It’s not Apple’s fault that there’s no Apple Watch equivalent on Android. Google bought Fitbit and still hasn’t created something that is good enough to entice Apple Watch users to switch.

    Sure thing buddy, keep drinking that cool aid. In reality Apple probably realized that they would have to face stiff competition without their walled garden to protect them and that would have been a lot less lucrative.

    • douglasg14b@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      6 months ago

      I’m not entirely sure what Kool-Aid you were implying they’re drinking…?

      “Apple makes apple products in the apple ecosystem. Non-apple ecosystem fails to entice apple users over”

      That’s essentially what you quoted. What part of that is controversial? It’s practically just a dry statement of fact.

      Apple’s anti-competitive practices ensuring that it’s successful within his own ecosystem isn’t a controversial part of that. We know that’s what they do.

      Or maybe I’m just missing something here.

      • MeanEYE@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        Apple watch not being on Android only means Apple doesn’t support Android. No one else can support Apple’s hardware, especially considering their litigious nature and suing for rectangles and logos. Technical capability exists, it’s only a matter of money and whether they want to do it. Either way you turn it it’s Apple’s decision, and therefore their fault if something is not on Android.

        What 9to5mac is doing is deflecting the guilt and rambling on about how Google bought Fitbit as if that has anything to do with their own support of Android. Samsung, Huawei, Honor and bunch of others have absolutely no issues making and supporting their watches on Android.

        Apple’s anti-competitive practices ensuring that it’s successful within his own ecosystem isn’t a controversial part of that. We know that’s what they do.

        That’s exactly it. But it’s Apple’s decision. Google didn’t go and decide Apple can’t have applications on Play store. So it’s absolutely Apple’s fault.

  • Railison@aussie.zoneEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    I have a vision of the Apple Watch Android port team sitting in an internal office, frisbee throwing business cards into a bin for three years.

  • akilou@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    Total bullshit

    Apple says that it determined an Apple Watch with Android support wasn’t doable because of technical limitations. As such, it scrapped the idea.

    What technical limitations? Smart watches that work with Android exist.

    • abhibeckert@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      What technical limitations?

      I’d guess it was the small battery in the watch. A lot of features on Apple’s smartwatch cause serious battery life problems unless they can be offloaded to your phone at least most of the day.

      For example if you have the weather conditions on your watch face… the watch can lookup the weather but it generally will ask your phone to do that. Stuff like that is a lot easier if you control the phone operating system and aren’t just running an app.

      … for example if you never launch the weather app on your phone, both Android and iOS will reduce it’s ability to drain the phone’s battery by running in the background. Apple makes an exception to that rule for weather apps where the user has a widget an Apple Watch face. How could the Android battery management systems know what widgets are on your Apple Watch?

  • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    Is the answer to their failure incompetence or greed? I’m sure Apple’s engineers are smart enough to make something compatible with Android, so I can only assume their failure is due to not being able to get by with real competition.