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Apple says it spent three years trying to bring Apple Watch to Android - 9to5Mac (9to5mac.com)

submitted 5 months ago by flop_leash_973 to c/technology

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[–] MeanEYE 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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 -8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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.