• Jrockwar@feddit.uk
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    7 months ago

    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.

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      7 months ago

      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”

  • rufus@discuss.tchncs.de
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    7 months ago

    Uh, is that the response to Google saying Apple is blocking their Google “AirTags” a few days ago?

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    7 months ago

    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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    7 months ago

    3 years doing what? 0 effort to have exactly what we see here now?

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      7 months ago

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

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      7 months ago

      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
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      7 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…)