However, Google's wearable platform doesn't pair with iOS (at least yet), whereas the Onetouch Watch does.
Not exact matches
By all indications, the company
did just that with the
wearable version of the
platform, Android Wear.
Google on Thursday officially rebranded Android Wear into Wear OS, having confirmed the new name of its
wearable platform only several days after rumors of its intentions to
do so originally emerged.
Google's Android Wear
platform is an automatic fail right out of the gate because its «all day» battery life just doesn't cut it in a
wearable - tech world.
Maybe, if Google and their partners don't pick things up and find a way to grab the majority of average consumers who have yet to buy
wearables, but there is still every opportunity for smartwatches and Android Wear to pick things up and forge on ahead so long as the
platform feels more like an extension of a connected device and not a replacement.
These will raise the expectations of what a smart
wearable can
do, and each
platform is vying for best - in - class status.
That set of apps doesn't cover every possible
platform out there, but there's a much better chance that you're using one of those than Samsung Health if the Gear Sport is your first Samsung
wearable.
As the company explained on its blog just a few months ago, recommendations
done right on
wearable platforms would seemingly work «like magic.»
Now Google has rebranded its smartwatch
platform to Wear OS in an attempt to make its watches more palatable for those who own an iPhone, but we don't currently know what new features are planned for the latest iteration of the
wearable operating system.
Google might have found an interesting approach to competing against the Apple Watch that we didn't see coming: The company is reportedly going to bring its Android - based
wearables platform over to iOS, thus allowing iPhone and iPad users to buy Android Wear devices and pair them with their Apple products.
The Summit
does run the latest version of Google's
wearable platform — Android Wear 2.0, with improved navigation, menu screens and a few new features sprinkled in — which at least keeps it relevant.
In Google's video introducing Android Wear, its
platform for
wearable devices, Google shows a scene where a woman opens her garage door by commanding her
wearable to
do it for her.
Bundled Android Wear support was scrapped not long after Google managed to develop a solution that allows it to bring one of the main features of Android Wear 2.0 to devices that don't support its latest
wearable platform, having recently debuted standalone app support for pre-Android Wear 2.0 gadgets.
We've still yet to see Samsung push Tizen into a commercial phone, but the
platform's spread from cameras to
wearables sure
does indicate that Samsung's moving forward with it.
However, it's clear that Google will have to
do a lot of its own legwork to get more developers excited about its
wearable platform.