Garmin smartwatches are good, support both Apple and Android and have their own App Store store for the watches that works with both mobile OS platforms.
It’s not clear what critical features couldn’t work for Apple on Android.
The missing critical feature was their a walled garden.
I stand by the Instinct. All of the smart features I need, and a 2 week battery life. I just wish they would release a model that doesn’t look like a G-Shock.
Other Garmin watches have practically the same features as the Instinct, but look different. Garmin makes small changes to market the watches to different segments.
My classmates back at uni also spent years trying to do something during group projects, and then suddenly had to go paint the ceiling, walk their pet hamster, move to a different apartment, and all that other stuff. We all know what these words mean.
They didn’t do shit, and everyone knows that as a fact. If there really was motivation for them to do it, it would have been done with the Watch Gen2
We couldn’t because… reasons?
We couldn’t because we just put a series of interns on it.
Calling bullshit. Whether you like their products or not, you gotta admit that some of the best software engineers in the world work at Apple. If they really wanted to do it, it would get done.
Plus, “investigating” an idea for three years is most definitely not the same as actively trying.
Yeah, if tiny smart watch startups can make it, Apple can.
That’s the thing, you don’t need to get all those top engineers in a room to investigate something, a team of product managers can do that perfectly fine and tell you it’s not possible.
They made iTunes for Windows when they wanted to sell more iPods. But that was under different leadership.
“We spent 3 years exploring whether spending the engineering effort to make it work the way we wanted on Android would end up making us more money in the long run, and decided it wouldn’t. Because we are a business, and that’s literally how we make every decision.”
It might be true, anything they have released outside their walled garden is pure crap, iTunes for Windows, Music for Android…
It just doesn’t work
One one hand, ye ye old java dalvik
On the other hand, proprietary Apple
