• @[email protected]
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    Oh that’s rich. So what they’re saying is somehow every other smartwatch company can engineer not only a way to solve the technical limitations, but a full smartwatch in under three years, while one of the most powerful tech companies somehow thought “naah, connecting to android is a lot more difficult than a self driving car or a VR headset with an integrated computer and video passthrough, we better shelve that idea”.

    Yeah ok Apple.

    • Transporter Room 3
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      Oh I’m sure they “tried” in a very circuitous, unfavorable, nobody-would-ever-have-agreed-to-this way.

      Kind of like saying “can I download my indie game to your computer and also kick you in your genitals with a spiky boot?”

      Before anyone tries pointing out that’s not exactly how it would have happened, I suggest you look up “hyperbole”

  • katy ✨
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    if google can bring android wear to ios then apple could bring apple watch to android easily

  • @[email protected]
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    Uh, is that the response to Google saying Apple is blocking their Google “AirTags” a few days ago?

  • @[email protected]
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    Honestly using an iWatch on Android is the absolute least of my concerns, so I hope this argument is a piece of the overall “walled garden” and not a singular issue they are dedicating resources to solving.

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    We were really trying hard, but there were no Android devices with FireWire 400 port available so we couldn’t connect to our developer team’s hardware…

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    Does anyone on Android even want an Apple watch? Seems like they’d have an iPhone at that point as well.

    • @[email protected]
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      I don’t know the answer to that, exactly, but I see shit loads of people with Android phones using air pods.

    • @[email protected]
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      Two use cases I can think of immediately

      1. Someone with an Apple watch who bought an Android phone
      2. Someone with an Android phone who’s curious about Apple’s ecosystem
    • @[email protected]
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      13 months ago

      I would. I’m not a fan of the watches any other company is putting out. Samsung has come close but limited certain features like ecg to samsung only phones. (Which also sounds like monopoly powers…)

  • style99
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    To be fair, Apple engineers are pretty stupid.

    • setVeryLoud(true);
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      They really aren’t. As much as I hate Apple, their engineers are skilled people kneecapped by corporate decisions.

      • Neon 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇹🇼🇮🇱
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        Not the Software Engineers though.

        Apple is pretty low-Paying for industry standards which means that a lot of people work there for their Resume and then move on

        Or at least that was the case a few years ago.

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          We still shouldn’t attack the software engineers for what is a management problem.