According to Canalys in 2014, the market had about 4 6 million units of wearables category. Interestingly, only 720,000 were gadgets based on the Google operating system – Android Wear. For comparison, starting at Pebble Kickstarterze from 2013, sold more than one million smart watches. In short, the leading consumer electronics manufacturers have failed to cause Popularity software from Mountain View.
Selling Android devices Wear did not help even praised by the media industry Watches Motorola and LG – Moto 360 and G Watch R. It is worth mentioning that it was Motorola has been a leader among all companies providing software Google gadgets. Wearables low popularity of Android, however, can be seen not only in comparison to Pebble, but … Xiaomi. The Chinese have sold over one million units Mi band Band, of which about 103,000 copies found their buyers in one day.
Meanwhile, the Prime Minister is now approaching Apple Watch, which may prove to be a very strong competitor based devices Android Wear. Competitive platform, Tizen, Samsung is also developing. According to the suppositions Koreans during the upcoming MWC fair will show new watch with copyrighted software – Orbis. To Samsung clearly depends on the greatest number of own wearables. Within 14 months the company has introduced 6 gadgets running on different software.
In summary, the electronics from the Android Wear it does not go well. Popularity devices definitely not confer high prices and short battery life as watches, which, moreover, is one of the biggest ills wearables (of course, not only those of the OS Google). New watches from the Android Wear likely to see at the fair in Barcelona MWC. Will they be better than existing products? Time will tell.
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