[hipadev23]

Genuinely don’t understand why Google continues to produce these products and refuse to support them. Do they just know there’s a contingency of anti-apple users who will buy their devices regardless of extreme usability issues?

[ensignavenger]

Apple has its own issues. And if I'm not mistaken, you need an iPhone to use an Apple watch, but you can use a Pixel watch with either an Android phone or an iPhone. Of course, Samsung, Garmin, and others also make campatible smart watches, so if I were in the market, I would certainly be comparing alternatives.

[insane_dreamer]

> Apple has its own issues. And if I'm not mistaken, you need an iPhone to use an Apple watch,

that's a feature, not a bug

[ensignavenger]

I don't know about it being either... more of a product choice made by Apple.

[8note]

According to the US anti-trust complaint, apple made the choice to make it harder for iPhone owners to switch away from an iPhone

[wilsonnb3]

Android wear watches only work with android these days

[ensignavenger]

Oh, looks like you are right... that stinks. But at any rate, a non iPhone owner such as myself can't use an Apple Watch no matter how I feel about Apple.

I guess if I need a smartwatch, I'll dust off my old Garmin. Several other recomendations in this discussion I could look into too :).

[viraptor]

It's not just the watches. Chromecast/GoogleTV devices have been missing an audio sync adjustment for ages. That feature is being asked about/requested all over the related discussion boards. Amazon Fire has it built in. Google doesn't care across so many product lines.

[tidenly]

I used to be one of these and honestly I'm so tired of Google as a company lately I'm really considering jumping over to Apple's ecosystem.

Google just have an incredibly weak product team, across both hardware and software.

[zamadatix]

Anti-Apple users have plenty of places to get their hardware and firmware updates from, few users are going to look this deep into getting a device though.