Apple worked on Apple Watch support on Android smartphones for three years: Report

The company reportedly spent a few years attempting to bring support for Android smartphones to its Apple Watch, the company said on Wednesday in response to a US Department of Justice (DOJ) lawsuit filed against the firm. Previous reports have shed some light on the company’s efforts to introduce support for its smartwatches on phones running Google’s smartphone operating system, but this is the first confirmation from Apple that the company first wanted to launch an Apple Watch that runs on Android. Work with phone.

The company’s response to the US DOJ lawsuit (via 9to5Mac) states that the company is considering supporting the Apple Watch over Android handsets. Due to technical limitations discovered over a three-year period, the company reportedly decided to abandon its plans to extend support for its smartwatches beyond the iPhone.

The 88-page US DoJ lawsuit accuses Apple of violating US antitrust laws (federal and state), including allegedly reducing the quality of cross platform messaging (iMessage exclusivity), the functionality of non-Apple smartwatches, Minimizing (limiting Apple Watch to iPhone), including suppressing cloud. Streaming for games on iOS, and preventing third-party apps from offering Apple Pay’s tap-to-pay functionality.

Apple told the publication that the lawsuit “threatens who we are and the principles that differentiate Apple products in highly competitive markets”, adding that it planned to “vigorously defend” against the US DoJ’s lawsuit. which he considers “incorrect based on the facts”. and law”.

Last year, Bloomberg reported that Apple engineers were “deeply engaged” in an effort called “Project Fennell,” which aimed to bring both the Apple Watch and the company’s Health app to Android smartphones. According to the report, the project was canceled when work was nearing completion so that the wearable device could outpace Apple’s iPhone sales.