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2020-09-26, 02:31

Yup. Some third-party bands are pretty bad. That could mean developing an odor, fitting poorly, being too rigid to comfortably put on, etc. It can also (thankfully, this hasn't happened to be) mean that they fall off as you're wearing them.

Apple's are consistently very expensive, and also apparently very good. Which… it's that kind of culture that they need to apply elsewhere. They opened up the spec for how to create your own band basically on day one, so they were apparently very confident that they could compete just fine. Apply that to, say, App Stores: let third parties provide their own store, but be confident that yours is just particularly great.
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