Google’s major Wear OS revamp is out today, and soon it will arrive on most devices released in the past year and a half (although Ars has already spent a week with a pre-release version of the OS). In the face of relentless competition from the Apple Watch Series 4 and Samsung Galaxy Watch, Google’s most obvious change in the new Wear OS is a new UI for most of the main screens. There’s not much in the way of new functionality or features, but everything is laid out better.
Seems like a very welcome update to a struggling platform.
Android is just phone only. It will never be popular on anything else. Tablets have been a flop for Android, watches are a total flop, set top boxes etc.
On the watch front there are watches that are more expensive then a lot of Android phones. Most Android users are not gonna pay that, the people who would are Samsung users and Samsung doesn’t use Android.
Interesting that Google does not make a watch.
Maybe in some atypical (but loud…) markets such as the US…
https://voicebot.ai/2018/07/19/smart-tv-market-share-to-rise-to-70-i…
According to this article, Android has a 40% share of the smart TV OS market.
I installed the updated version of WearOS on my Pixel 2 xl the other day and dug my Zenwatch out of the drawer, charged it, and tried it out. I can say the changes are seemingly just surface changes to the WearOS app, nothing new in terms of functions – at least regarding my old watch.
On the plus side, wearing the watch reminded me it looks (to me) stylish and getting text messages and email notifications on my wrist rather than digging my oversized phone out of my pocket is a plus…
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Edited 2018-10-04 07:41 UTC