I can believe it, because of how integrated everything is at Apple. You probably need to bring a lot of iCloud support over (App Store, backups, apis), but that may also require supporting applications and configurations
im not fully convinced its api, as there are several times a dev or themselves have proved connecting to the apple service was possible. with message, beeper proved it was possible to chat with imessage users. with icloud, backups could be accessed via an internet browser (therefore theres an already existing api that is platform agnostic as it runs in a browser.)
apple could even just make a PWA and instantly have access to the same api that browsers use to access its cloud on its own, and supporting auto cloud sync wouldn’t even have to be at an OS level.
Well, it’s not like they said they gave it their best, and I really doubt they did.
They might have had a couple of trained monkeys bashing typewriters for 3 years in a room with the sign “Apple Watch for Android team” on the door for all we know. They just said they were “working on it” before scrapping the idea
It’s based on a specific piece of hardware in the iPhone called the Secure Enclave that basically keeps all of your PHI in a place that nobody but you can get it. It doesn’t transfer when you get a new phone, for instance, and has to be recreated. I’m betting that an Android app involved some sort of emulator, performance was awful, and they gave up.
During a question-and-answer session, a journalist raised the issue of the iPhone’s incompatibility with rich communication services (RCS) messaging, preventing the seamless sharing of video clips with their Android-using mom. It’s been a longstanding issue between Apple and Android devices. Cook acknowledged that it isn’t a top priority for the company. If the reporter wanted to fix the issue, Cook joked, “buy your mom an iPhone.”
Pardon me if we don’t give you the benefit of the doubt.
Sounds like they didn’t try very hard.
I can believe it, because of how integrated everything is at Apple. You probably need to bring a lot of iCloud support over (App Store, backups, apis), but that may also require supporting applications and configurations
im not fully convinced its api, as there are several times a dev or themselves have proved connecting to the apple service was possible. with message, beeper proved it was possible to chat with imessage users. with icloud, backups could be accessed via an internet browser (therefore theres an already existing api that is platform agnostic as it runs in a browser.)
apple could even just make a PWA and instantly have access to the same api that browsers use to access its cloud on its own, and supporting auto cloud sync wouldn’t even have to be at an OS level.
Well, it’s not like they said they gave it their best, and I really doubt they did.
They might have had a couple of trained monkeys bashing typewriters for 3 years in a room with the sign “Apple Watch for Android team” on the door for all we know. They just said they were “working on it” before scrapping the idea
It’s based on a specific piece of hardware in the iPhone called the Secure Enclave that basically keeps all of your PHI in a place that nobody but you can get it. It doesn’t transfer when you get a new phone, for instance, and has to be recreated. I’m betting that an Android app involved some sort of emulator, performance was awful, and they gave up.
Apple is full of shit. I freaking doubt it’ll take them a year.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tim-cook-says-buy-mom-210347694.html#:~:text=Benzinga-,Tim Cook Says ‘Buy Your Mom An iPhone’ If You,Not A Priority For Apple&text=Apple Inc.,showcased his sense of humor.
Pardon me if we don’t give you the benefit of the doubt.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/16/23964171/apple-iphone-rcs-support
There’s definitely a difference between “not possible” and “not a priority.”