Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones

Re:Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones by CivBase on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @08:01PM (#43406758)

Third-party controllers have been widely available for every popular video game console including the GameCube. Nothing was stopping anyone - Microsoft included - from creating an Xbox controller which would also work on the GameCube. Nintendo certainly didn't stop anyone.

This example completely misrepresents the issue. Nobody is asking Apple to add support for Pebble watches to their devices. They're asking Apple to stop preventing Pebble (and other smart watch manufacturers) from being able to support Apple devices.

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Re:Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones by frollogaston on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @08:19PM (#43406884)

Ok, then Microsoft put a famously large amount of effort into stopping people from installing other software on each version of Xbox. And Nintendo at least made it difficult to create unlicensed GameCube games.

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Re:Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones by CivBase on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @09:09PM (#43407267)

Game consoles are not general purpose computing devices. People do not buy Xboxes with the expectation of running Photoshop. But people buy smartphones with the expectation of being able to use smartphone peripherals.

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Re:Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones by frollogaston on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @09:25PM (#43407376)

Nobody buys an iPhone expecting it to be an open device. You can't even sideload apps on it.

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