This week’s news is undoubtedly the new US lawsuit against Apple for monopoly. Without a doubt, difficult years are beginning for Apple where the European Union and the United States will try to dismantle its entire commercial architecture to open the doors of the company, as has already happened, for example, in the European Union and with iOS 17.4. The Justice Department’s new lawsuit refers to the Apple Watch as another monopolistic element. However, Apple claims in response to the lawsuit that it tried for three years to adapt the Apple Watch to Android, but abandoned the idea due to technical limitations.
Apple Watch on Android? : Apple abandoned the idea due to technical limitations
The US lawsuit against Apple is more than 80 pages long and stalled all the monopolistic arsenal that the Ministry of Justice found at Apple. In one of the sections they focus on the Apple Watch, the smart watch of the Big Apple, and the main thesis they defend to define it as a monopoly is in the following paragraph:
Apple’s smart watch, Apple Watch, is only compatible with the iPhone. Therefore, if Apple manages to guide a user towards purchasing an Apple Watch, it will cost them more to buy another type of smartphone, because to do so they will have to abandon their expensive Apple Watch and buy a new one smartwatch compatible with Android. .
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Therefore, the United States understands that if Apple does not open the Apple Watch to other operating systems, For users who want an Apple Watch, it is understood that they will need to purchase or own an iPhone. This tactic can be included in what is called monopoly and that is why the United States includes this title in the lawsuit. In addition, they specify and assure that if they opened the Apple Watch to other systems, they would benefit from a reduction in iPhone sales:
Apple uses smartwatches, an expensive accessory, to keep iPhone customers from choosing other phones. After copying the idea of a smart watch from third-party developers, Apple is now preventing these developers from innovating and limiting the Apple Watch to the iPhone to avoid a “negative impact on iPhone sales.”
Apple, in response to this section, assured that it had worked for more than three years to bring the Apple Watch to Android. However, all the work was in vain as it could not be completed due to technical problems. If we look back, we had information about this research project and the possibility of opening the technology to Android. We will see what Apple’s next steps are to deal with this lawsuit and what the consequences are if it loses it.