Android Wear Rebranded as 'Wear OS by Google'

Android Clothing is Dead. Long alive Habiliment OS. That seems to be Google'south bulletin to the tech customs effectually the world, as the visitor has officially rebranded its smartwatch operating system from Android Wear to Wear Os by Google simply days ahead of the almanac Baselworld watch show in Switzerland. Earlier rumors had suggested that such a move was on the cards, then while it's certainly a significant day for Android Article of clothing users, information technology's certainly not an entirely unexpected one.

The new OS will be unveiled at Baselworld next week, merely it's non immediately articulate if new devices will also exist demoed at that place, although, that could very well be the case. Notwithstanding, the company does say that the new name will beginning replacing the onetime name on smartwatches and apps from next week – currently the Wear app still shows Android Wear when y'all install it. As role of the update, the visitor also says that it will introduce new features and improvements to the platform in the coming weeks and months.

It will be interesting to know what was the master motivating force behind the rebranding, because, going strictly by precedence, the arbitrary renaming of tech products is unremarkably 1 of the first signs of a fundamental lack of organized religion in the product itself. However, it could be that Google is looking to break beyond smartwatches which are based on Android to something a bit more wide.

It's also likely that i of the master driving forces behind the rebranding is the increasing adoption of the Android Vesture platform past iPhone users. According to the search behemothic, equally many as 1 in three Android Wear watches around the earth are paired to iPhones. In which example, it makes perfect sense to drib the Android branding to convey a sense of universal compatibility.