Android Wear will change its name to Wear OS

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Currently, the smartwatches that are available on the market are managed by less powerful versions of the operating system Differents companies. On the one hand we find Apple's watchOS, Samsung's Tizen and Android's Android Wear. In addition, Android also has other Android-based operating systems to manage both TVs and vehicle multimedia centers.

After the success of the Android Wear platform, many have been the manufacturers that They have stopped betting on the wearables market, partly because of Google, since it seems that it had put aside its platform for wearables, delaying the launch of new updates very much, something that seems to be about to change.

One of the main reasons why Google seems not to pay interest in its platform could be motivated by the poor sales of terminals based on Android Wear, The cause of which could be due, in turn, to the name of the platform, which many Android users may think is not compatible with the iPhone, although through the Android Wear application, you can use a smartwatch managed by Android Wear on an iPhone, although with a series of limitations that we do not find in the case of the Apple Watch.

Having seen what is seen, it is likely Google does not want to leave the platform abandoned, and plans a series of changes that could come soon. The first affects the name, a name that will go from being called Android Wear to Wear OS, completely forgetting about the word Android, a movement that seems aimed at "clarifying" that this operating system is perfectly compatible with iOS, with its corresponding application, an application that would logically also change its name adopting this new name.

Android Pay

It seems the Mountain View-based company wants reduce the name of denominations so that it is much clearer for users. Another example of new names is found in the payment platform, which in a few months has been renamed Google Pay instead of Android Pay. Google Pay offers a much greater and less generic guarantee than what Android Pay can offer, in this way the search engine company wants its payment platform to continue growing and at some point surpass both Apple Pay and Samsung Pay, leading platforms in all in the world if we talk about electronic payments through a smartphone.


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