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This won't happen because it would require Apple to share their software as well as hardware. The seamless pairing and automatic handoff enabled by W1 and H1 re
by simonh 6y ago
This won't happen because it would require Apple to share their software as well as hardware. The seamless pairing and automatic handoff enabled by W1 and H1 relies on a very sophisticated software stack.
There's no way Apple is going to distribute that software to third parties, and even if they did there's no way they would be able to guarantee the quality and compliance of all of that on third party platforms. Apple is all about user experience and buggy flakey third party systems in the W1/H1 ecosystem is absolutely off the table.
The way to do this is for third parties to come together and come up with open standards for automatic pairing and seamless device handoff. The problem with that is I suspect it's incredibly hard.
- vermilingua 6y agoIs there a convincing reason why this software can't be baked into the chip, and exposed to the containing device as digital output? I don't see one.
- marderfarker2 6y agoI find this comment amusing. I’ve been using a $5 knock off AirPods Pro with my iPhone and it behaves exactly like the real deal; handoff, renaming works flawlessly. Pretty sure it doesn’t have a W1 chip.