Apple spent just a few years trying to convey help for its Apple Watch to Android smartphone, the corporate reportedly acknowledged in its response to the US Department of Justice (DoJ) lawsuit filed in opposition to the agency on Wednesday. Previous stories shed some mild on the corporate’s efforts to introduce help for its smartwatches on telephones working on Google’s smartphone working system, however that is the primary affirmation from Apple that the corporate beforehand wished to launch an Apple Watch that labored with Android telephones.
The firm’s response (by way of 9to5Mac) to the US DoJ lawsuit states that the corporate thought of supporting the Apple Watch on Android handsets. Owing to technical limitations found over a three-year interval, the corporate reportedly determined to drop its plans to increase help for its smartwatches past the iPhone.
The 88-page US DoJ lawsuit accuses Apple of violating US antitrust legal guidelines (federal and state) together with allegedly lowering the standard of cross platform messaging (iMessage exclusivity), diminishing performance of non-Apple smartwatches (limiting Apple Watch to iPhone), supressing cloud streaming for video games on iOS, and blocking third-party apps from providing Apple Pay’s tap-to-pay performance.
Apple advised the publication that the lawsuit “threatens who we are and the principles that set Apple products apart in fiercely competitive markets”, including that it plans to “vigorously defend” in opposition to the US DoJ’s lawsuit, which it believes is “wrong on the facts and the law”.
Last 12 months, Bloomberg reported that Apple’s engineers had been “deeply engaged” in an effort referred to as “Project Fennel” that geared toward bringing each the Apple Watch and the corporate’s Health app to Android smartphones. The mission was cancelled when the work was about to be accomplished, to enable the wearable to proceed to push Apple’s iPhone gross sales, as per the report.
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