[0x4f3759df]

I think there's a larger story, which I'll explain through a personal anecdote. I purchased the Samsung Gear 3 LTE smartwatch because I've always hated how mobile phones get in the way of personal interaction, but then was very disappointed to find out it ran Tizen and not Android Wear, which means no Google Assistant.

So one the one hand you have Google Assistant: great voice recognition and queries against the Google search engine, and on the other hand you have Samsung which doesn't own a search engine and can't compete in the voice search market.

So it looks like Google is going to dominate the entire hands-free computing world (smartwatch, cars, and home assistants)

Google I/O is tomorrow so hopefully they'll announce some Android Wear with LTE and voice assistant.

[saagarjha]

Do you really think Google has a stake in the wearables market? Last I heard they were ready to pull out with most of the market going to Apple.

[bitmapbrother]

Wear OS currently accounts for about 18% of the wearable market share. There's also a WearOS session scheduled for I/O so they're still interested. The major hurdle has been the SoC. WearOS devices are still using the antiquated 28nm Snapdragon 2100 SoC which was created in 2014.

[Roritharr]

It was mostly attributed to Qualcomm who left them hanging dry until this February.

[jacksmith21006]

Heard where? Highly doubt Google is going to pull out of the wearable space.