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Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage (finance.yahoo.com)
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Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage::Samsung has joined Google’s campaign to force Apple to make iMessage RCS-compatible—but European regulators are more likely to get that job done.

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You can't use an Apple watch on Android because it requires the Apple watch app to sync with the phone and that won't work on Android.

[–] nikscha@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes because iPhones have ✨magic chips✨ inside which only Apple has... I'm pretty sure the apple watch communicates with Bluetooth. Apple just deliberately shuts Android out.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apple originally looked into it but decided not to because they wanted to maintain their ecosystem. Same story as usual.

I have no idea why the above guy seems to think that Apple watches work on androids

[–] nikscha@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

It doesn't work on Android, I know that. But I'll bet you 1000€ that Apple could enabled cross-platform compatibility with an OTA update.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

That's pretty stupid. I doubt many Android users would switch to Iphone you for a smartwatch, but a few would absolutely buy apple watches if they could.

I guess the point is that they don't want iphone users to switch to android since that would make their watch practically useless.