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This is irrelevant. The primary argument people have against Apple is their platform indirectly impacts how other businesses can operate generally. The smartwatch never took off as a platform, so it exercises no such influence.

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> The smartwatch never took off as a platform

And you think Apple had no role to play in this by making most of them useless on their devices?

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There is no reason to believe lack of background activity support on iPhone is the reason smartwatches haven’t taken off as a computing platform.