flop_leash_973@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoApple says it spent three years trying to bring Apple Watch to Android - 9to5Mac9to5mac.comexternal-linkmessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up146arrow-down112
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minus-squareakilou@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up83arrow-down3·6 months agoTotal bullshit Apple says that it determined an Apple Watch with Android support wasn’t doable because of technical limitations. As such, it scrapped the idea. What technical limitations? Smart watches that work with Android exist.
minus-squaredco@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up63·6 months agoThe technical limitation of not running iOS I guess.
minus-squaretowerful@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up52·6 months ago steps vs stepCount God, this fucking API is untennable. Im out!
minus-squarebloopernova@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·6 months agoWell, you see, first off you need a microservice to distinguish between those 2 types of step, then you need separate microservices to handle storing those values. Then you need a GraphQL database in a multi zone Kubernetes cluster as a backend… Ugh I feel dirty saying all that.
minus-squareresidentmarchant@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·edit-26 months agoThey put their best high school interns on it! What more could they do!?
minus-squarePantherina@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·6 months agoLike Airdrop (using wifi) could never possibly work like normal Bluetooth sharing (using Bluetooth)
Total bullshit
What technical limitations? Smart watches that work with Android exist.
The technical limitation of not running iOS I guess.
God, this fucking API is untennable. Im out!
Well, you see, first off you need a microservice to distinguish between those 2 types of step, then you need separate microservices to handle storing those values. Then you need a GraphQL database in a multi zone Kubernetes cluster as a backend…
Ugh I feel dirty saying all that.
They put their best high school interns on it! What more could they do!?
Like Airdrop (using wifi) could never possibly work like normal Bluetooth sharing (using Bluetooth)