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It doesn't have to be a lie to be a poor excuse. The technical limitations could be something along the lines of they couldn't find a way to provide an app that wouldn't allow third parties to bypass apple gatekeeping of apple watches. Technically truthful, but in an antitrust context maybe less of a valid reasoning, but still allows them to redirect the public narrative.

Edit: Sounds like it was about privacy concerns, so probably something like there not being a completely foolproof way of preventing a third party from grabbing health data from the android app.

The idea is not to increase watch revenue, but to get people into the whole ecosystem and keep them there

> Any claim they make can be validated through discovery. I doubt they would lie

The claim would hold up even if it were a lie. "We concluded that Androids API wasn't compatible with the Apple Watch". Not a lie, but obviously still a complete lie.

> and I’m sure they’d love to increase Watch revenue by addressing the other half of the duopoly.

What they would love way _more_ is lock-in. You want this new shiny? It's only in the Apple ecosystem.