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Crippling Garmin app on ios, subsidizing Apple watch Ultra to start a price war etc.

• rgbrenner 4y ago
  has apple ever engaged in price wars? the 'premium' image of their products is pretty important to their position in the market, and their ability to maintain their high price margins. iOS app limitations though, I agree. Fits their pattern of behavior.
  • Fogest 4y ago
    When you artificially limit what competitors can do on your device it means you can keep your prices high. You don't really have to compete on price when you've already crippled the competition to the point of being much less useful. The other user mentioned specific examples such as the Apple Watch and how it's able to do a lot more compared to competitors like Garmin. I'd even argue products like Tile are another example. Spotify is still fighting with Apple to get some more "fair" competition. Considering how tight margins are in the music world, Apple being able to dodge the 30% Apple tax is a huge bump in their ability to compete. Overall the list could go on for days, I think you nailed it on the head that it would fit their pattern of behaviour. And they already seem to be following that pattern with their current line of watches and what they can do versus what a non-apple watch can do interaction wise with their phones.
• mvexel 4y ago
  It already kind of is crippled, compared to the Android app. The Garmin iOS app doesn't (can't?) support sending a quick reply to an incoming text message from the watch, for example, something you can do when connected to an Android phone.
• driscoll42 4y ago
  While I don't think it's intentionally crippled, the Garmin app is better on Android than iOS. You can have fine grained app notifications on Android that you can't on iOS, and from /r/garmin it seems that iOS app is more unstable.