"Commoditise your complements" in this setting would mean making watch OSs free for everyone in order to make demand for watches go up.
You're right. The strict interpretation would be the more people who wear smartwatches, the wider Google's surveillance net.
Is there a commercial strategic term for denying your adversaries oxygen?
There's Microsoft's Embrace, extend, and extinguish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
According to Wikipedia:
> Predatory pricing is a commercial pricing strategy which involves the use of large scale undercutting to eliminate competition.
"Commoditise your complements" in this setting would mean making watch OSs free for everyone in order to make demand for watches go up.