Do you have an Apple Watch? Have you had a competing watch? Genuine questions because I honestly do not see how Apple Watch could work on Android. They can't even make their own watches work well. It's not worth trying to square that peg.
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Apple Facing Imminent U.S. Antitrust Lawsuit
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Do you have an Apple Watch? Have you had a competing watch? Genuine questions because I honestly do not see how Apple Watch could work on Android. They can't even make their own watches work well. It's not worth trying to square that peg.
I heard not a peep when iMessage was introduced in 2011. Why does everyone think they have the right to access Apple‘s “secret sauce”? In 2007 he said (during the iPhone introduction) “An Internet communicator”. He fulfilled that prophecy in 2011. And now the world should have access?
I don’t want to receive spam from droidheads on my Messages App.
Android wear has actually come a long way. I remember owing a Fossil smart watch a while back and it was garbage, and ended up switching to the Galaxy watch (not galaxy gear) running Tizen. Picked up a galaxy watch 3 a few years ago, when I was still running android, and it ran flawlessly.
Yeah, move to Grand Cayman Island and open a giant Apple Store. Free cruise trips to customers.Apple should just pull out of the U.S.
You're talking about using an Android watch on iPhone though, right? I think the DOJ means the other way around. I don't see how that could work anywhere near as well without forcing Apple to do a bunch of specific things I don't think the DOJ (should) have the power to order.
This is really sad. Let companies create the products they want and let us customers choose the products we want. These regulators are really arrogant.
I was addressing the second part of your statement. Honestly, alphabet is guilty of the same thing right now, android wear doesn't work on iOS.
Following in the footsteps of the EU I see, smart move
So if a company flagrantly violates the law and the DoJ goes after them, the DoJ is arrogant. got it.
Not saying apple is doing so, but if they are, there should be consequences.
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It’s because the “Divas” are lobbying Governments around the world.
That’s what they know how to do best, instead focusing on running their own businesses.
Perhaps the real issue is AAPL continues to resist the pressure to [overtly] join the BORG. https://dailyreckoning.com/from-capitalism-to-corporatism/
and courts get to decide if any of those apply or are even legal. Antitrust suits rarely go the way the government wants and never go the way they are portrayed in the media.
I wasn't sure if it made any attempt to work at all these days. I'm not sure I see it as a real problem. The watch is a companion device, it needs to be properly integrated with its main unit.
Apple should just pull out of the U.S.
They'd probably find a way to sue Apple for doing that too..
Ok are we serious right now?
And go where? The overwhelming majority of Apple’s revenue and profit is from the US. They’re not going anywhere.
I wasn't saying they were. But the point is that the government is allowed to take action under antitrust law, and this isn't a new thing.
Hm, a healthy marketplace is determined by us, the people.
The government is wrong a lot.. so again, how does some random in the DOJ know what I want? The answer is, they don't.. and I'm not an Apple sheep as I once was. I criticize the company for many decisions but I can always take my money to Google.. I have that option, do I not?
I wish the regulators would go after the real problems in the tech space - Meta and Alphabet