I can believe it, because of how integrated everything is at Apple. You probably need to bring a lot of iCloud support over (App Store, backups, apis), but that may also require supporting applications and configurations

Well, it's not like they said they gave it their best, and I really doubt they did.

They might have had a couple of trained monkeys bashing typewriters for 3 years in a room with the sign "Apple Watch for Android team" on the door for all we know. They just said they were "working on it" before scrapping the idea

It’s based on a specific piece of hardware in the iPhone called the Secure Enclave that basically keeps all of your PHI in a place that nobody but you can get it. It doesn’t transfer when you get a new phone, for instance, and has to be recreated. I’m betting that an Android app involved some sort of emulator, performance was awful, and they gave up.

Apple is full of shit. I freaking doubt it'll take them a year.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tim-cook-says-buy-mom-210347694.html#:~:text=Benzinga-,Tim%20Cook%20Says%20'Buy%20Your%20Mom%20An%20iPhone'%20If%20You,Not%20A%20Priority%20For%20Apple&text=Apple%20Inc.,showcased%20his%20sense%20of%20humor.

During a question-and-answer session, a journalist raised the issue of the iPhone’s incompatibility with rich communication services (RCS) messaging, preventing the seamless sharing of video clips with their Android-using mom. It’s been a longstanding issue between Apple and Android devices. Cook acknowledged that it isn’t a top priority for the company. If the reporter wanted to fix the issue, Cook joked, “buy your mom an iPhone.”

Pardon me if we don't give you the benefit of the doubt.

I stand by the Instinct. All of the smart features I need, and a 2 week battery life. I just wish they would release a model that doesn't look like a G-Shock.

We couldn't because we just put a series of interns on it.

Yeah, if tiny smart watch startups can make it, Apple can.

That's the thing, you don't need to get all those top engineers in a room to investigate something, a team of product managers can do that perfectly fine and tell you it's not possible.

“We spent 3 years exploring whether spending the engineering effort to make it work the way we wanted on Android would end up making us more money in the long run, and decided it wouldn’t. Because we are a business, and that’s literally how we make every decision.”

They made iTunes for Windows when they wanted to sell more iPods. But that was under different leadership.