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Calling bullshit. Whether you like their products or not, you gotta admit that some of the best software engineers in the world work at Apple. If they really wanted to do it, it would get done.
Plus, “investigating” an idea for three years is most definitely not the same as actively trying.
Yeah, if tiny smart watch startups can make it, Apple can.
That's the thing, you don't need to get all those top engineers in a room to investigate something, a team of product managers can do that perfectly fine and tell you it's not possible.
“We spent 3 years exploring whether spending the engineering effort to make it work the way we wanted on Android would end up making us more money in the long run, and decided it wouldn’t. Because we are a business, and that’s literally how we make every decision.”
They made iTunes for Windows when they wanted to sell more iPods. But that was under different leadership.