Google Launches 'Android Wear' Project for Wearable Devices

[trip1ex]

Let's just be optimistic

Apple will have its own

No. Let's get someone to wake us up when these products are on the shelf.

 

[NMBob]

Wear no evil?

 

[trip1ex]

Motorola is doing a Hangout showing off the actual product and what it'll do tomorrow. Your argument is invalid.

Always tomorrow. Wake me up when it is out. Your argument is invalid.

 

[AgentElliot007]

I really don't think there are many people who want a smart watch like this. Even if Apple makes it. If Apple makes a killer health band what was a lot less what these other companies are suggesting a smart watch should be, that might have a market at the right price point. But doing things with a device on my wrist? I don't think so. Again, I don't think people are nearly as excited about watches in general anymore since smartphones. Making them smarter isn't going to magically make a watch somehow more necessary.

 

[69Mustang]

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.

App Store. It did lack that.

 

[wigby]

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..

Google opens everything up and that is a real problem...for Google. There is zero focus here except for Google to get as many devices in their marketshare court. So now you have a million developers with a million product failures.

This is why Apple knows how to play the market. You must first come in and show developers how it is done, not just in design but also by leveraging your proprietary hardware and ecosystem. Then after you sell a hundred million units, open it up to 3rd parties...or don't. By then it doesn't matter that much.

 

[Kariya]

Just waaaaaaay too geeky and inaccessible to the average consumer. Everything in the video screams 'annoying geek trying to be cool'.

 

[samcraig]

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.

Yeah ok.

I'm still laughing at your goalpost moving to state that google glass is vaporware. Clearly you need to learn the definition.

 

[Roessnakhan]

However, you can't say that even the first generation iPhone lacked something, because it didn't

Off the top of my head:

• MMS
• Copy/Paste
• App Store

 

[samcraig]

Off the top of my head:

• MMS
• Copy/Paste
• App Store

..exchange support

 

[BJonson]

In other news apple released an 8gb iphone and an old ipad.

 

[Limboistik]

Remember when Apple was late to the MP3 market and then crushed it with the iPod? Remember when they were late to smartphones and crushed it with the iPhone? Remember when they were late to tablets and revived it while crushing the netbook with the iPad?

Remember when Apple was late to wearables and crushed it with the...?

No other company can execute a market changing device like Apple can.

Agreed. However I feel like most investor sentiment today, or the general public's sentiment even, is that Apple hasn't yet demonstrated it's still the same company it was during Jobs era, and until then, Apple's future is still looking cloudy, at least to most people.

IMO, I find it ignorant and naive to believe that Jobs single-handedly brought those products to fruition. He already laid a solid groundwork for innovation in the company, and the culture is there, the talent is there, and most importantly their design philosophy is there; identify problems, and leverage design to come up with an elegant solution.

This is one of the key points that many other companies either fail to realize, or realizes but fails to execute, for various reasons.

Then again, this is all my opinion, but time will tell. But my belief, is that Apple is still the same beast.

 

[cheesyappleuser]

Off the top of my head:

• MMS
• Copy/Paste
• App Store

It didn't make it a bad experience though. And the latter functionalities were added in future updates.

 

[69Mustang]

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 think you misinterpreted the quote by BigD23. He wasn't making a comparison. He was being ironic. As in Apple rehashing product while Google preparing for new product.

Of course the SDK is meaningless for consumers. It's not meant for them. I just see this as a good thing. If we get cool stuff, then yay for consumers. If we don't, no harm no foul.

 

[cdmoore74]

And Apple knows how to bait the hook...

Don’t you mean bait and switch; offering the iPad 2 for $399 and switching it out for iPad 4 for the same cost making it appear as if there is a good deal to be had?

 

[geniusj]

..exchange support

3g

 

[rtomyj]

In other news apple released an 8gb iphone and an old ipad.

Didn't Google just release a red Nexus 5

 

[App69]

Really?

So they make the phones bigger and bigger and now they want us to use a watch to vieuw the content on the too large phones?

 

[mikecorp]

stupid

i do not think that will work like that. That is just stupid!

 

[jonnysods]

..exchange support

3g

 

[roland.g]

Why not just this Google?

 

[Born Again]

No. Let's get someone to wake us up when these products are on the shelf.

Lol

 

[paradox00]

I think you misinterpreted the quote by BigD23. He wasn't making a comparison. He was being ironic. As in Apple rehashing product while Google preparing for new product.

Of course the SDK is meaningless for consumers. It's not meant for them. I just see this as a good thing. If we get cool stuff, then yay for consumers. If we don't, no harm no foul.

I don't see the irony. If Apple was announcing a watch, it would be followed with a shipping date in the near future. Google releasing an SDK with a vague timeline for when its partners will bring out actual products is par for the course. Nor do I see how Google would fit into the role of rehashing old products.

 

[Gudi]

The SDK is the product. If you mean hardware, that's up to the various manufacturers. Google have sewn the seeds, now it's up to the manufacturers to reap the rewards.

Funny, how you're not responsible for a failure, when you're only doing the software.

Eric Schmidt: "By the summer of 2012, the majority of the televisions you see in stores will have Google TV embedded."

Garmin and Suunto have GPS watches.

And they so much resemble what is shown in the video, promising smartphone-like turn-by-turn navigation.

 

[Rafagon]

MACrumors or Android BS??

The big logo on the top of the website says MACrumors (see attached image or click on URL immediately below)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/39137484@N05/13248666495/

so... I just have to wonder why MACrumors feels the need to post front-page articles about Google/Android BS.

Try to stay on topic, MACrumors. Thanks.