Smart Watch Update- NOT called TAG Heuer...

Hubert
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Good news overall. The upgradable confirmation is great; now for how many years or iterations, we'll just have to wait and see.
 
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Android Wear smartwatches come to the iPhone
http://www.theverge.com/2015/8/31/9231293/android-wear-ios-hands-on-video-google-watch-iphone
  • Your notifications from the iPhone are mirrored on Android Wear.
  • You get Google Now cards on the watch.
  • There are a bunch of different watch faces - including select third-party watch faces - that you can install and use.
  • There are a few native apps on the watch you can tap into, like Weather or a clever Translate app.
  • Voice search works, including various reminders that you might want to send to Google Now.
  • You can do fitness tracking on the watch with Google Fit.
  • You can get rich notifications from a small set of Google apps, such as Calendar and Gmail.
 
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I'm also an apple user, but i'd never consider a smart watch instead of a true swiss watch. No matter how cutting edge, i hate the idea of having to charge a watch every 24 or 48 hours. Everything your watch does, your phone already does. Also, when you invest on a good watch it will last you a lifetime, something you can pass on to someone, a smart watch will last you until next year when a new model comes out and renders the one you already have obsolete.

Just my 2 cents.
 
Hubert
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Smart/Connected-watch reservations aside, the big news is that Android Ware now works with iPhones, whereas in the past it was only Android based devices.

iOS was the key group that I am sure LVMH was pressuring Google to get covered & gain compatibility. Now this opens the floodgates, for TH and other luxury brands who are interested in building their own smart watch using a proven solution like Google's Android-Ware foundation.
 
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Hubert Hubert
Smart/Connected-watch reservations aside, the big news is that Android Ware now works with iPhones, whereas in the past it was only Android based devices.

iOS was the key group that I am sure LVMH was pressuring Google to get covered & gain compatibility. Now this opens the floodgates, for TH and other luxury brands who are interested in building their own smart watch using a proven solution like Google's Android-Ware foundation.
That's exactly it, while market share wise Android wins easily, all of the money is made both in apps and hardware on the iOS side, and without that TAG Heuer would have been in a very bad position.

Just to put it in perspective, on this forum's visitor stats iOS devices outnumber Android 3 to 1, even though Android devices are significantly more common globally.
 
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