Apple Watch began to support Android (but it's not free)

What all Android users have dreamed of for so long has finally come true - Apple is releasing an application for its

hours under Android, after which they can be useduse in Android smartphones starting from version 8.0 Oreo. True, Apple wouldn’t be Apple if it hadn’t come up with a clever way to make money on it. The app will only work if you pay a monthly subscription of $4.99. And, of course, the user will need an Apple ID account. To soften the pill, the company is offering the first month of use free.

The Apple Watch app will start appearing on Google.Play on Friday, April 3. Residents of the USA, Japan, Great Britain, Germany and a dozen other countries will receive it first. It will be available to users from Eastern Europe a little later. Interestingly, in addition to the standard subscription, Apple will also offer a student ($1.99 per month, but you will need to take a photo of your student ID in the application and the subscription will expire after the expiration date of the ticket) and an annual subscription ($49.99 per year, payment will be charged once a year) . Unfortunately, there is no annual student subscription option.

According to several Twitter users,leaks known for their publications, the information from which is most often confirmed (therefore, it can be trusted more than usual) Apple plans to use such Android users in the very near future, when the company will have to be very tight due to the upcoming sales drop: through the Apple Watch app, it will offer to go from an Android smartphone to refurbished and stale iPhone at special prices. What can give a new impetus to sales and thus, albeit for a short time, slow down the decline of the company.

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