When Google decided to bet on wearables, it pulled out its own operating system to manage smartwatches, an operating system that in recent months, if not the last year, seems to have been abandoned by the hand of God. Google may have launched this lightweight version for wearables trusting that it would eat up the market, as is the case with smartphones, but as we have been able to verify that blind trust has taken its toll since both Apple with watchOS and Samsung with Tizen, have taken the lead and are leaving it far behind. For dessert, it was just announced that Android Wear's chief engineer is leaving the company to run the mobile payments platform Stripe.
Android Wear 2.0 was officially presented, before entering the beta phase in May 2016, but it was not until the beginning of this year, when this second version of the operating system for Google wearables began to reach the market and compatible terminals, after several delays due to faults in its operation, faults of considerable importance. Along the way, Motorola and Asus announced that for the moment they were abandoning this platform, at least for now until this type of device becomes more than just a device for geeks. What's more, the limitations that Google imposed from the beginning When modifying the operating system to customize it, it was never to the liking of the manufacturers.
But despite the abandonment of the manufacturers that initially bet on Android Wear, many have been the manufacturers, mainly of long-time watches as well as luxury brands, who do continue to bet on Android Wear, but we do not know for how long. . At the moment, there is no news about Android Wear 3, but it is likely that If Google continues to mistreat these manufacturers, some of them will start opting to strike a deal with Samsung to use Tizen, a much more polished operating system, with more customization options and with a much tighter battery consumption than that offered by Android Wear.