From The Verge: Today, Google will begin rolling out a software update for Wear OS smartwatches. I’ve been using this new version for about a week, and although it’s nowhere near as advanced or as fast as what you’ll get on an Apple Watch, it’s a big improvement over what we had before.
As I wrote last month when Google first announced that the software update was coming, Google is changing what happens when you swipe on the main watchface. The new interface represents a more opinionated and focused take on what a smartwatch’s purpose is supposed to be: simple fitness tracking and replying to notifications. It also leaves room for Google to experiment with new features without interfering with the core stuff you care about.
That’s a much less ambitious set of goals than what Apple elucidated for the Apple Watch Series 4, which is entirely appropriate. Wear OS has long had a hardware problem: the partners creating Wear OS smartwatches have tended to produce pretty enough but technically deficient devices. And so Wear OS needs to have simpler goals, ones achievable on the out-of-date processor it’s typically running on.
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