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Apple was this close to releasing an Apple Watch for Android (www.androidauthority.com)

submitted 2 years ago by Drtysouth205@alien.top to c/apple@hardware.watch

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[–] ChemicalDaniel@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Am I the only one that doesn’t see how Apple Watch drives iPhone sales? Surely it’s the other way around, right? Like who would switch to an iPhone just to use an Apple Watch when alternatives for Android exist?

I feel like this was a mistake. Steve Jobs once said releasing iTunes on Windows was like giving “a glass of water to someone in hell”. He was obviously joking, but if they managed to get android support with the Apple Watch as good as it is on iOS, I could definitely see people switching to iPhone just because their experience with their Apple Watch is a lot better than anything they’ve used before.

I hope that technical reasons were also behind this decision, because I don’t see how this effects iPhone sales long term

[–] colin_staples@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Like who would switch to an iPhone just to use an Apple Watch when alternatives for Android exist?

Enough people that Apple think it's better to keep the watch as an iPhone-only accessory

It makes some people switch to iPhone so that they can have an Apple Watch

And it makes plenty of people stay with iPhone because they want to keep their Apple Watch.

You are in one ecosystem or the other, not both.

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