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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
Apple spending 3 years researching and determining it is not doable due to technical limitations:
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https://kbin.melroy.org/m/technology@lemmy.world/t/169337/-/comment/1533639 Pretty much.
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.
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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.
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