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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...em-for-watchesSwatch Group AG said it’s developing an alternative to the iOS and Android operating systems for smartwatches as Switzerland’s largest maker of timepieces vies with Silicon Valley for control of consumers’ wrists.
The company’s Tissot brand will introduce a model around the end of 2018 that uses the Swiss-made system, which will also be able to connect small objects and wearables, Swatch Chief Executive Officer Nick Hayek said in an interview Thursday. The technology will need less battery power and it will protect data better, he said later at a press conference.
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I have always loved working on those projects where the Chief Exec or A.N. Other senior director has set the launch date without having any kind of a scooby as to whether any of what's being proposed is actually feasible. Not.
Seems to me to be a very foolish decision. Haven't they seen what happened to previous alternative mobile OSes? Nokia, Ubuntu (Maemo, Meego, etc.), Mozilla, even the mighty Microsoft have not succeeded. Others are in the process of not succeeding, except perhaps Tizen which might have some future.
By all means, take Android and strip it down (whilst retaining as much compatibility as possible) but to develop something entirely new? No, that's madness.
Haven't swatch done this and failed before ?
https://www.wareable.com/smartwatche...er-touch-apple
It's due to come out around the same time as the fifth generation Apple Watch.Originally Posted by Samjowen
Good luck with that.
You don't have the option - you get to do what Google tells you to or you don't get to launch your device. You can do a fork (based on AOSP) and your own version but you are then completely cut offer with absolutely no access to any of the services that people expect.
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