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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.
Lol no they didn't
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"
"trying"
Nice try, Apple.
They tried thinking about it and decided nah.
if google can bring android wear to ios then apple could bring apple watch to android easily
Uh, is that the response to Google saying Apple is blocking their Google "AirTags" a few days ago?
Lol the only way they'd do that is if they could force playstore to pay 30%
Sure jan
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...
3 years doing what? 0 effort to have exactly what we see here now?
One marketing guy had 10 minutes per week to work on it.
Does anyone on Android even want an Apple watch? Seems like they'd have an iPhone at that point as well.
I don't know the answer to that, exactly, but I see shit loads of people with Android phones using air pods.
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...)
Two use cases I can think of immediately
To be fair, Apple engineers are pretty stupid.
They really aren't. As much as I hate Apple, their engineers are skilled people kneecapped by corporate decisions.
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.
We still shouldn't attack the software engineers for what is a management problem.