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So you went from “it doesn’t exist”, “Apple doesn’t support it”, “it’s a hack” to “maybe it’s too much of a power draw?

> Have fun living in the reality distortion field, I hope you wake up one day.

Yes a standardized Bluetooth profile that has been available on iOS devices for over a decade is “not reality”.

And now your excuse is that “maybe Bluetooth takes too much battery life”?

> This is a limitation common across non-Apple smartwatches on iOS

Have you ever thought that Android devices makers who are competing on price decide it’s not worth making the investment in supporting iOS devices since the Apple Watch is so dominant?

I told you exactly how it could be done using an existing Bluetooth standard that Apple has supported for over a decade. You’re really pulling at straws.

You could also at one point send “canned messages” from third party watches before the Apple Watch was introduced.

And here is an existence proof

https://help.fitbit.com/articles/en_US/Help_article/2344.htm....

And I’m sure that’s all crappy Android watch makers with horrible processors and battery life would have to do to convince Apple Watch owners to switch is to enable message replies.



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