With the latest version of its Tizen
wearable platform there's a distinct doubling down on the circular interface and the amount you interact with the rotating bezel of the watches.
Not exact matches
Others seek to keep up a program born out of subjective endeavours and shared with a worldwide community: such as LIFE SPORT in Athens, which sells «critical
wearables» — the LIFE SPORT joggers — as an attempt to generate alternative arts funding in a time and place where
there is none; Opening Times, which is an online - only exhibition
platform; Peach, an exhibition space and home in Rotterdam; and I: project space, which fills a gap in the Beijing art scene by presenting video art and supporting artist exchange via residencies.
At the recent Google I / O developer conference
there was no indication of any plans to make these
wearables work with iOS or any other
platform.
There's a lot of ground to cover to catch up with Apple, but this launch should serve as kind of a reboot for Google's
wearable platform, injecting a bit of excitement and turning an eye toward the future.
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.
The Microsoft Band is a very different
platform than most other
wearables out
there.
There are speculations that the upcoming
wearable device would make good use of Apple's HealthKit health and fitness
platform and also be operable with its HomeKit
platform.
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.
During the lengthy keynote,
there wasn't a single mention of the Android Wear
platform or new
wearable devices.
There are innovative mobile payment
platforms, social peer - to - peer payment apps, digital wallets, payment apps for
wearable devices, and alternative payment systems for mobile customers of which consumers and the merchants...
Yes,
there's plenty of room for app developers to expand onto this
wearable platform.
There's a change to the watch's whole operating system, which is no longer Android Wear, but something LG is calling «Wearable Platform operating system» and there's a trio of buttons on the side to interact with this new sy
There's a change to the watch's whole operating system, which is no longer Android Wear, but something LG is calling «
Wearable Platform operating system» and
there's a trio of buttons on the side to interact with this new sy
there's a trio of buttons on the side to interact with this new system.
The modern
wearable landscape is similar: no matter what
platform or manufacturer you look at,
there's always a caveat, an implied «but» that encourages you to maybe wait for the next generation unless you absolutely need to have a smartwatch right this second.