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I like the ecosystem. If you don’t, choose another ecosystem.

If you like it, use it. Why not let other people augment the ecosystem? If Apple allowed Pebble to get full permissions and it all turned out to be the extremely unsafe, buggy disaster that everyone here chooses to portray it as, then you can still buy an Apple Watch. In what way does shutting out the competition benefit you?

How many users do you think call Apple everyday to complain about issues with their third party, knockoff AirPods lookalikes? Could you imagine why Apple could be protective of the user experience of their hardware and sensitive to that user experience being compromised by poorly implemented or nonfunctional peripherals? For every Pebble user, how many people might buy ripoff Apple Watches?

I would not be surprised if more people called every day about how their AirPods aren’t working as expected.

Not sure how it’s relevant that paying customers receive customer service.

My point is that it's probably a rounding error for them.

At the moment precisely because Apple is protective of the user experience.

I like that the EU forces Apple to be more open. If you don't, just don't come to Europe.

"Love it or leave it" - why not make it better?

Allowing support for a rich ecosystem of mediocre smart watches does not move the needle on making it better for me personally. And Apple probably has done the market research to confirm most of their customers are like me and not like Pebble users.

> And Apple probably has done the market research to confirm most of their customers are like me and not like Pebble users.

I'm sure. The customers they do not have are like Pebble users, and they don't want customers like Pebble users. They want customers like Apple Watch users.

It is a bit 'masque of the red death' to defend anti-competitive practices, is all I'm saying.

How is it anti-competitive for Apple to pick its own customers? A decade ago, Android used to argue that open was better. Now, people seem to argue that closed should be illegal.

It's constantly getting better. If it wasn't then competitors would surpass it, but they never have.

What if you like their computers but absolutely can't stand their mobile devices though?

I got fed up with the walled gardens enough that I made a macOS app to transfer files to and from Android devices using Google's Quick Share protocol (that I had to reverse engineer first).

And no, don't suggest me to try desktop Linux. I want to use my system, not maintain it.

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