Apple Labored on Help for Apple Watch on Android Smartphones for Three Years: Report

Apple spent just a few years trying to deliver assist for its Apple Watch to Android smartphone, the corporate reportedly acknowledged in its response to the US Division of Justice (DoJ) lawsuit filed towards the agency on Wednesday. Earlier stories shed some mild on the corporate’s efforts to introduce assist for its smartwatches on telephones working on Google’s smartphone working system, however that is the primary affirmation from Apple that the corporate beforehand needed to launch an Apple Watch that labored with Android telephones.

The corporate’s response (through 9to5Mac) to the US DoJ lawsuit states that the corporate thought-about 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 develop assist 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’re and the ideas that set Apple merchandise aside in fiercely aggressive markets”, including that it plans to “vigorously defend” towards the US DoJ’s lawsuit, which it believes is “incorrect on the information and the regulation”.

Final 12 months, Bloomberg reported that Apple’s engineers had been “deeply engaged” in an effort known as “Challenge Fennel” that geared toward bringing each the Apple Watch and the corporate’s Well being app to Android smartphones. The challenge was cancelled when the work was about to be accomplished, to permit the wearable to proceed to push Apple’s iPhone gross sales, as per the report.