With the Pixel 6, Pixel 5a, and even the Pixel Buds A-Series noticeably missing in action at today’s Google I/O 2021 opening keynote, Android 12 and a huge Wear OS update seem to be essentially sharing the limelight ahead of their actual release “later this year.”
The great Gear days might soon be over
Wear OS + Tizen = Wear? Google Wear? Wear by Google?
Naturally, no one expected Samsung’s stellar software support for those two particular smartwatches to last forever, but it sure sounds like their fancier Galaxy Watch-branded successors will not receive quite the same treatment.
We want to believe
Granted, at least three years doesn’t have to mean exactly three years, but unfortunately, we’ve seen these types of promises unfold in precisely that way far too often in the mobile industry over the years to allow ourselves to dream of more.