{"id":42759,"date":"2024-04-05T19:12:15","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T23:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=42759"},"modified":"2024-04-06T07:27:10","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T11:27:10","slug":"trying-to-bring-apple-watch-to-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/05\/trying-to-bring-apple-watch-to-android\/","title":{"rendered":"Trying to Bring Apple Watch to Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2024\/03\/21\/apple-watch-android-apple-work\/\">Chance Miller<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=39793339\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2024\/03\/21\/apple-watch-android-apple-work\/\"><p>As part of its response to the United States DOJ lawsuit today, Apple confirmed that it at one point considered creating an Apple Watch for Android. The company tells me that it spent three years working on bringing Apple Watch to Android before ultimately scrapping the idea.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/markgurman\/status\/1770870612690358367\">Mark Gurman<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/markgurman\/status\/1770870612690358367\">\n<p>This was Project Fennel, which I wrote about last year.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>I&rsquo;d love to know more about this because it doesn&rsquo;t seem to make much sense given the way apps work. Would it have been just be the built-in apps and <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2023\/11\/01\/apple-watch-android-support\/\">some health features<\/a>? If there&rsquo;s an antitrust issue here, I would think it&rsquo;s with lack of support for third-party watches on iOS rather than not supporting Apple Watch on Android.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/21\/u-s-sues-apple-over-iphone-monopoly\/\">U.S. Sues Apple Over iPhone Monopoly<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/26\/dma-compliance-default-app-controls\/\">DMA Compliance: Default App Controls and NFC<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/05\/eu-objects-to-apple-limiting-third-party-access-to-nfc\/\">EU Objects to Apple Limiting Third-Party Access to NFC<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/09\/why-theres-no-imessage-for-android\/\">Why There&rsquo;s No iMessage for Android<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chance Miller (Hacker News): As part of its response to the United States DOJ lawsuit today, Apple confirmed that it at one point considered creating an Apple Watch for Android. The company tells me that it spent three years working on bringing Apple Watch to Android before ultimately scrapping the idea. Mark Gurman: This was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2024-04-05T23:12:19Z","apple_news_api_id":"b784e554-ce12-4cb7-a718-476d551478f1","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-04-06T11:27:13Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/At4TlVM4STLenGEdtVRR48Q","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[248,2085,992,31,2321,1212],"class_list":["post-42759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-android","tag-antitrust","tag-apple-watch","tag-ios","tag-ios-17","tag-watchos"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42759"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42768,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42759\/revisions\/42768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}