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Apple says it spent three years trying to bring Apple Watch to Android - 9to5Mac (9to5mac.com)
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[–] [email protected] 42 points 7 months ago (3 children)

In response to the DOJ’s assertion, Apple confirmed for the first time that it at one point considered Android support for the Apple Watch. After a three-year investigation, Apple says that it determined an Apple Watch with Android support wasn’t doable because of technical limitations. As such, it scrapped the idea.

Yeah, bullshit.

Somehow Garmin, Samsung, HTC, Huawei, Pebble (RIP), Fossil, Moto/Lenovo, etc. managed to do it just fine.

Rather than technical reasons, rather I suspect the real reasons were financial and ideological, i.e. it would would conflict with Apple's brand-wide pathos of vendor lock-in, and would mean the maximum amount of capital would not extracted from the rubes as a portion of it might -- shock, horror -- go to one of their competitors, Google or Samsung.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago

Apple spending 3 years researching and determining it is not doable due to technical limitations:
We've tried nothing and we are all out of ideas.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Which is exactly why they are getting sued, for creating vendor lock-in and monopoly.