The Steve Jobs email that outlined Apple’s strategy a year before his death

Re:The Steve Jobs email that outlined Apple’s strategy a yea... by segf4ult on Thursday November 03, 2016 @02:06PM (#12866382)

While Apple may not intentionally keep you from leaving their platform, a side effect of their tight integration is that it's harder to leave. Take the Apple Watch for example. Without an iPhone, the Apple Watch goes from a smartwatch to only being able to tell the time. Sure, you could own an Android phone and an Apple Watch, but you wouldn't get any of the benefits of the Apple Watch, which further ties customers to the iPhone.

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Re:The Steve Jobs email that outlined Apple’s strategy a yea... by eridius on Thursday November 03, 2016 @02:14PM (#12866453)

True, but the Apple Watch is in most ways just an iPhone accessory, and you could make this same argument about any iPhone accessory (though other accessories typically aren't as expensive as the Apple Watch is).

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Re:The Steve Jobs email that outlined Apple’s strategy a yea... by kevb on Thursday November 03, 2016 @02:36PM (#12866664)

But Apple entered the smart watch market by making an iPhone accessory. Whereas when they entered the smart phone market they made a phone for everyone, not just Mac users. On the other hand IIRC the original iPod required a Mac and they opened that up later.

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Re:The Steve Jobs email that outlined Apple’s strategy a yea... by eridius on Thursday November 03, 2016 @02:52PM (#12866821)

AFAIK all smart watches require other devices to configure them. Even if you give them cellular connections and whatnot, the screen is just too tiny to do any real configuring on the device directly. But who knows, maybe someday we'll have Apple Watches that can be configured using icloud.com.

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