Re:Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones
by Phrodo_00 on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @07:12PM
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> Because they can't do much, if anything at all?
But the Apple Watch can, and a lot of the same arguments apply to it as much as any third party watch.
Re:Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones
by Avamander on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @08:27PM
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Yes, but they can actually know it fulfils some security criteria of theirs. Doesn't have fundamentally broken cryptography hidden somewhere, doesn't leak its keys, all that bare minimum is really difficult to guarantee with external unknown implementations.
Well, I wouldn't say that the standards for (software) security were anywhere near as high as they are now. It makes sense that our requirements for things change.
> It's very, very, very, hard to believe there's 0 way for Apple to ensure an encrypted connection.
Sure there are ways, but without regulation I struggle to see why should/would Apple ever bother. Nor do I think that a forced way would be held to the same standards as the rest.
> Put another way, avoiding the global observations: If it's impossible, why allow watches to be paired at all?
Because they can't do much, if anything at all?