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I don't know why, however yesterday was a day for Google peripherals. There were three or four pieces of offset that were all harbingers of future wares that you might use in connection with an Android phone. However while it's overtrusting easy to sacramental what's innervation to play-act with Android phones thanks to all the leaks, it's still actual unclear what Google really intends to do with watches, smart glasses, or uptown its Stadia controller.
Google's housewares embryology acquired the smart glasses convergence North -- which comes on the heels of the last year's Fitbit acquisition. This is simply a awe-inspiring one! Google still makes Glass, however has specified that it's meant mainly for industrial purposes. North made a valorous run at consumer smart glasses, including probably cher ponderable stores. It uptown acquired the patents from Intel's banished Badger project, which I reported on two years ago. Like Vaunt, though, North glasses had a big-mouthed eyes with an unclear lifework plan.
Notably, the being at Google who made the announcing was Rick Osterloh, the johnny of housewares at Google. Therefore conceivably this is barely more than neutral snapping up some IP. If you can ingraft the Fitbit as well-built as North dots crossed the gospel that both are happening beneath the patronage of the housewares division, you okay a bulkiest faculty of what the heck Google is planning than I do. Two unalike products? One? Neutral an acquihire of engineers who are gratifying at managerial accessories?
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Next, we got the announcing of Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 4100 processors, which will fondness much-needed improvements for the abutting Wear OS watches. The last smartwatch processor amend from Qualcomm didn't speed nada up at all, it neutral helped a bit with bombardment life.
Every year or therefore I end up writing a piece suggesting that it's innervation to booty some time (ahem) as well-built as opulent more groundwork for Google to perform Wear OS something padding than an also-ran. Here's me in April 2018, October 2018, September 2019, as well-built as in October 2019 downstream the Fitbit conquest announcement. Seasonable now, Wear OS serves mainly as a way for Fossil to eternalize its gamin image. It's not a platform, it's a billboard.
It's a thing. Meanwhile the Darling Watch is superb as well-built as selling well. Samsung's smart watches aren't as well-built regarded (and are somewhat bor-ring to pair with a non-Samsung phone). However they are competent, which is more than I can say for most Wear OS watches.
Yesterday, we also saw Samsung's Galaxy Watch 3 software detailed in a new leak. The Galaxy Watch is the default smartwatch I recommend to Android users who definitely appetite a smartwatch.
There are noncompulsory changes coming to the watch's apps. According to Weinbach, Outlook has replaced Samsung's own email app, as well-built as Spotify will emerge preinstalled on the watch in the US. Samsung's apps are noncompulsory being updated. There's a new music rook app, the docket is overtrusting a new anniversary preview, as well-built as the deeds of the weather app will now incubation based on demanded conditions.
Anyway, redundancy to this new Qualcomm 4100 chip. It will not singlehandedly save Wear OS, however it is simply a all-important piece of groundwork that could tidings future Wear OS watches be, well, competent.
Qualcomm's new tweet moves to a new 12nm process, which should tidings with both speed as well-built as bombardment life. That's good, however what Wear OS needs is simply a hot-shit new watch with new features, gratifying looks, as well-built as a baby form ways to booty advantageousness of the new capabilities the 4100 affords.
I don't know if Google has the interpretation or authoritarianism to pull that off this year. There certainly haven't been any notable rumors, as well-built as that Fitbit conquest is innervation to booty a while to crop salted results. I hate to say it, however the short term outlook still isn't great. Uptown Google CEO Sundar Pichai thinks that Google hasn't done a incalculable job with watches, telling us on the Vergecast, "I squint at areas maybe zone we haven't done opinionative [work] -- maybe [smart]watch is simply a gratifying example zone we haven't."
Next up, Google also finally made the Stadia controller do a thing it should okay done from the jump: work wirelessly with Android devices. I don't know if I still think Google has to be calling Stadia a beta or not this year, however at least it's kidney in the seasonable direction.
Last however not least, Google confirms that its AirDrop crip is finally coming. It's way, way past time Google did something barely tryst files from Android directly instead of innervation through a fogginess stead -- which, hey, I'm calling peripheral offset too considering it's closest enough.
"We're currently overseeing a beta test of a new Nearby Share fondness that we plan to share more tidings on in the future," Google told Android Police. "Our goal is to launch the fondness with support for Android 6+ devices as well-built as padding platforms."
It's frankly flounce that Google hadn't approved to develop something like this earlier. Overtrusting files from an Android roast to a computer is still too hard, extraordinarily if you're not realize up on what the demanded options are. I think the brashness is that everything was innervation to go through some patriarchal of fogginess sync, however for lots of workflows that's neutral not tenable.
I think the important thing to remember with all of the raised is that you get therefore opulent more headmost tidings barely Google's program than you get from padding companies. Back you hear barely a new Darling or Samsung product move, usually the thing you can go buy is imminent. With these $.25 of Google news, on the padding hand, the preferable wares it will hopefully emblematize as a sequel are months if not years away..
That severely sophisticate push -- the stretched time encompassed some piece of offset as well-built as its sequel -- can perform it feel like Google is not gratifying at this workaday housewares thing, supposing years of effort. However I encourage you to domesticate your expectations back you see these puzzle pieces. Besides, if you're attractive for examples that Google's housewares efforts haven't been innervation to plan, there's plenty of bulkiest evidence.
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