Unless Google has completely lost the thread, this acquisition only makes sense if the company is ready to try something completely different.
Googles most prolific partner in making Wear OS watches, Fossil, had a sub-five-percent marketshare in North America in Q2.
Taken simply as a piece of software, Wear OS itself is actually better than many have given it credit for, but its languished for so long that its software ecosystem bears all the hallmarks of a platform in decline. Even so, in terms of basic usability and features, Wear OS is a fairly solid platform on which to rebuild if only there were hardware to go with it.
But even with enough RAM to run , the convolutions the new Fossil watches go through to get through a full day of use are amongst the silliest Ive seen on any device.
Back when it first launched Android Wear, Google made a bet that it could replicate the Android model with watches: distribute free software to companies that could use readily-available components to create their own devices.
Samsungs Galaxy Watch Active line is successful not because the Tizen OS is great , but because Samsung is nearly Apple-esque in its vertical integration on the smartwatch.
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