This year has not been the year of Android Wear. The delay suffered by the launch of Android Wear 2.0, with which the capabilities of Android-based smartwatches are greatly expanded, catching up with the Apple Watch, has been a severe blow to the manufacturers, who have decided not to launch any model new to the market in the second half of the year. In addition, Motorola does not see this market interesting and a few weeks ago announced that it was abandoning it until users show more interest in this platform. In addition, Samsung is increasingly betting on Tizen, an operating system adapted to smartwatches that offers higher performance with a much tighter consumption.
To try to curb the slowdown in Android Wear this year, the Mountain View-based company just announced the purchase of Cronologics, a company founded by former Google employees in 2014 and that it had focused on launching applications for wearables. The intention of this purchase is none other than to try to improve the capabilities that Android Wear currently offers, to continue attracting the interest of manufacturers without passing through their heads to Samsung's Tizen.
Following the announcement, officially made through the company's blog, Google states that the entire Cronologics team is already focusing on the development of the next version of Android Wear, 2.0, an update highly anticipated by users but that for problems in its development the launch has been delayed, delay that Google has also used to add new functionss, in addition to those presented at the last Google I / O in May. At the moment we do not know the amount that Google has paid, but everything indicates that the company will see its doors close and the entire team that was working so far will become part of the Android Wear division.