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Google Launches 'Android Wear' Project for Wearable Devices

everything-i said:
Except Google come up with this sort of future 'product' advertising too often and it ends up being ages before its released if ever.
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Well Google did their part, you can sign up for the developer preview.

What about examples of LG and Motorola not delivering on products they've announced? As these are the ones everyone is referring to as vaporware.
 
69Mustang said:
As someone else said. The product is the SDK. Not watches. The video is to conceptualize some of the possible products. This release (SDK) is not for the public. It's for developers. Not pointless.
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Without a decent product to leverage the API it is pretty pointless. They are just releasing something to stop Samsung coming up with their own proprietary extensions to Android for wearables and leaving Google behind.
 
Piggie said:
I think one thing many here seem to be forgetting.
This is effectively day one, of a 5, 10, 20 year move to wearable devices.
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No. This is day one, of a 20 year waiting period, before the technology is ready for wearables to gain capabilities similar to current smartphones. We have just entered the era of smartphones and tablets and it will stay just as long as the era of laptops and desktops did. If you try to build a smartwatch with smartphone technology, you will end up like Bill Gates trying to build a tablet with laptop technology. It is undoable. With todays technologies we can build wearable peripherals and sensors like the Nike Fuelband, but not a smartwatch that is worth its name.
 
darbus69 said:
Considering the workplace has become exceedingly hostile for visible cell phones, I have come to the conclusion that an iWatch (I'd prefer they call it iTime) is a necessary wearable alternative to the "sneak-a-peek" at my phone trick.
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Not sure where you work, but if anything workplace has become more and more easy going with cellphones and even when they go off in the middle of the meeting people would just continue doing whatever they are doing. Personally, I'm very surprised at how relaxed people are about cellphone these days.

Tsuchiya said:
Completely unnecessary criticism here, but why are all these tech videos edited in the exact same way?

Seems like a set formula.

1) Look as non threatening as you can. Wash your face.
2) Stare off into this random space while we film you from an angle and randomly zoom into your face.
3) Speak like you've discovered the philosophers stone.

Then they line up some hipsters for a demo video.

It's a formula that probably works just fine, I just can't help but roll my eyes when I see them though 🙄
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I have been saying the exact same thing. If you have sometime, go watch all the iPhone related devices or kickstarter videos. They are all the SAME, exactly like how you've described. I like the part about "Then they line up some hipsters for a demo video." Haha, too good.
 
Lapidus said:
This is the first time I'm getting afraid that Apple might lose everything to Google someday. Should they really keep everything closed? Google is so much faster with opening up everything..
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Look what happens when Apple DOESN'T even announce their plans. They get followed solely on rumors. Forget about the fact that Apple's product designs get routinely copied, even their strategic movements get imitated.

So if Apple opened up any sooner, that just gives the competitors that much more lead time to create their "answer" to a new Apple product.

And don't give me this nonsense about "Apple didn't invent wearables, they weren't the first, blah blah." Obviously. The point is, if iWatch rumors weren't at a fever pitch, do you really think we'd see so many companies desperate to release a smartwatch? Doubtful. It was just like tablets back in 2010. No companies gave a damn about tablets for at least 5 years, then all of a sudden it was the category everyone jumped right into based solely on "iSlate" rumors reaching fever pitch. For crying out loud, HP even named a product "Slate" because Apples tablet was rumored to be called iSlate.
 
Radio said:
Are you blind ?!

Its going to be released in the summer

What's wrong with people here lol
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Are you blind. It ain't out yet. You don't know how it works in the real world.

btw, can I get your name, address and phone? I have some products I want to sell you. They won't be out until next year. But man they are great. Watch these videos to see how great they are. Pay now to receive a discount.
 
Millah said:
Look what happens when Apple DOESN'T even announce their plans. They get followed solely on rumors. Forget about the fact that Apple's product designs get routinely copied, even their strategic movements get imitated.

So if Apple opened up any sooner, that just gives the competitors that much more lead time to create their "answer" to a new Apple product.

And don't give me this nonsense about "Apple didn't invent wearables, they weren't the first, blah blah." Obviously. The point is, if iWatch rumors weren't at a fever pitch, do you really think we'd see so many companies desperate to release a smartwatch? Doubtful. It was just like tablets back in 2010. No companies gave a damn about tablets for at least 5 years, then all of a sudden it was the category everyone jumped right into based solely on "iSlate" rumors reaching fever pitch. For crying out loud, HP even named a product "Slate" because Apples tablet was rumored to be called iSlate.
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You see what you want to see.
 
umm I like it if costs $99 or less

it's easy for google to bring something like this out since they are just a software company 99% of the time. They should release their own hardware for this also to try to get the marketplace off the ground IMO.
 
Roessnakhan said:
Well Google did their part, you can sign up for the developer preview.

What about examples of LG and Motorola not delivering on products they've announced? As these are the ones everyone is referring to as vaporware.
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Yes, but what is the point of signing up to this now when there are no compelling reasons to develop for this platform. No manufacturer seems even close to producing a mass market wearable device and I would say its going to be a long time before something compelling is released. By then the concept will have moved on and this API will be something completely different or the roject will have been canned. This is, as I said, just mockups and dreams.
 
The circular watch is a beautiful design and the UI looks pretty impressive. They've set the bar pretty high in that video. I'm curious to see how it performs in the real world.
 
trip1ex said:
No by my definition there is no reason to get excited about a mockup.

Let me know when the real product is out especially a new product category.

Apple certainly doesn't make commercials showing off how fake consumers are enjoying its product 6 months before it might come out.

When Apple announced the iPad you saw a feckin' iPad. On the stage. IN person. Being used by Jobs. Same thing with the phone. And half the time the products are available for the purchase the same day.

Now go grow a brain please.
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Motorola is doing a Hangout showing off the actual product and what it'll do tomorrow. Your argument is invalid.
 
thekeyring said:
Looks great, but it's no iOS 8. 😉

If the iWatch does run a full version of iOS that's slimmed down and made super-efficient then that same software will scream on iPhone and iPad.
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nope it wont' scream. It will be similar to what they did with the iPod nano 6 gen.
 
69Mustang said:
Very true. But the SDK that the entire article is about is available. hmmmm
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So? That doesn't change my life, tell me who will ship a product first, or which will be better. It's great for Android devs and device manufacturers. It's meaningless for consumers. I was simply pointing out what a terrible comparison it was.

I look forward to seeing what these devices end up being like, much like I look forward to seeing what Apple's solution will be. All that's changed for me is that I have a vague timeline for when we might see these Android devices.
 
samcraig said:
And the Mac Pro that was recently designed?
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And what about it? Are you saying there isn't a forest because you may have found a dead tree and some grass amongst all the trees?

Are you saying my statement isn't 100% perfect?

Do you not get the larger point here?
 
trip1ex said:
Are you blind. It ain't out yet. You don't know how it works in the real world.

btw, can I get your name, address and phone? I have some products I want to sell you. They won't be out until next year. But man they are great. Watch these videos to see how great they are. Pay now to receive a discount.
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Let's just be optimistic

Apple will have its own
 
Radio said:
Are you blind ?!

Its going to be released in the summer

What's wrong with people here lol
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its called Denial,
I for one think that Apple is taking too much time for this product (if ever) and leaks of Apple doing an iWatch really hurt them a lot ... everyone has been working on this overtime it seems ...

Recent hiring of experts in fitness areas that seem to be for the iwatch are too new .... Why would they hire those expert if the product is finish designing ?

Apple better hit this one out of the park ... or i can see the prophets of doom will be all over Apple so fast its not funny !!
 
darbus69 said:
Considering the workplace has become exceedingly hostile for visible cell phones, I have come to the conclusion that an iWatch (I'd prefer they call it iTime) is a necessary wearable alternative to the "sneak-a-peek" at my phone trick.
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I think it will be called iAm.
 
everything-i said:
Without a decent product to leverage the API it is pretty pointless. They are just releasing something to stop Samsung coming up with their own proprietary extensions to Android for wearables and leaving Google behind.
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That's just wrong. If Samsung forks Android they lose the GMS aka Google Play Services, along with the associated API's and such. A Samsung phone without the Google services (Maps, GMail, etc.) becomes an also ran. Besides Samsung and Google already agreed to play more nicely together. So there's that.

Pointless? To the consumer, yep, pretty pointless. To developers and product manufacturers, absolutely not pointless. I would say it's a necessity. Ask Samsung how it feels to release a product (Gear) that has no app ecosystem.
 
Lapidus said:
This is the first time I'm getting afraid that Apple might lose everything to Google someday. Should they really keep everything closed? Google is so much faster with opening up everything..
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No, because these are look more like prototypes than anything else.
You can argue (correctly) that the iPhone is an ever-evolving product. When you compare the iPhone 4 to a 5s you definitely notice it has a more "complete" feeling to it.
However, you can't say that even the first generation iPhone lacked something, because it didn't, whereas you can't translate that to the first Android phones.

The same goes here: Google opens up, but in the end it's Apple who releases the first product as-is.
 
DavidLeblond said:
Wow. Really?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_tv

Methinks you need to look up the definition of vaporware.
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And that GTV is doing amazing huh?

How about that Nexus Sound ball and Nexus phone?

The glasses are still vaporware. This is vaporware. It's a video with CG effects on a watch face. Lets actually SEE a REAL watch running it and a guarantee the responsiveness will be absolute sh-t.

Google hasn't innovated sh-t in the last 10 years.
 
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