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.
Which is exactly why they are getting sued, for creating vendor lock-in and monopoly.
https://kbin.melroy.org/m/[email protected]/t/169337/-/comment/1533639 Pretty much.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Apple says it spent three years trying to bring Apple Watch to Android …
… without customers realising their watches offers nothing more than the competition, and the primary reason their watches were successful was the lack of such competition within their walled garden.
