If we stop to count on the fingers of the hand the smartwatch models with Android Wear that have reached the market, we have too many fingers. In fact, despite the news that Android Wear 2.0 will bring us, few have been the manufacturers that have presented new models this year We do not know if because of the suitability of Android Wear for their devices or because they are rethinking their position in the market due to the low sales of these devices or because perhaps they are looking for alternatives such as Samsung, which is using Tizen in the latest models that has launched to the market in recent years.
In fact, the smartwatch market, without taking into account the Apple Watch and the Fitbit or Xiaomi quantifying bands, has experienced a 23% decrease this year compared to the same period in 2015. According to CNET, manufacturers Motorola, Huawei and LG they do not plan to launch any new models on the market. In fact, as we have informed you in Actualidad Gadget Only AUS and Fossil have been the only manufacturers that have renewed the catalog of devices in their catalog.
But it seems that the idea of these manufacturers is not to completely abandon this range of devices, but have opted for extend the renewal cycle of your devices, expanding it to two years, like Apple, which has taken more than a year and a half to renew the Apple Watch, as we could see in the last Apple keynote in which the Cupertino-based company presented the Apple Watch Series 2 .
But it seems that low sales are not the only motivation for manufacturers to extend the renewal cycle, but rather the options offered by Android Wear do not fully meet the needs of manufacturers, especially if we compare the large number of options that Apple offers us with watchOS 3.