While Apple is ahead of sales of swiss watches, cases from the main competitor Android Wear are frankly unimportant. There were a lot of reasons for this, but here are the analysts from ArsTechnica put forth an interesting hypothesis about the fact that a really smart watch from Google has killed Qualcomm.
Why Qualcomm
A all because Qualcomm is not produced no single-chip processors exactly 2 years. By modern standards it is already an ancient crystal. The latest processor company for Android Wear was Snapdragon 2100, which on the exit was very far from concepts of topology. AND it is not so much about power, which is not especially critical for smart hours, how much about obsolete architecture with poor energy efficiency. Because of what a clever clock on Android as a rule noticeably lost in autonomy for smart watches from Apple and Samsung.
What's up with the sales of Android watches
There are no exact figures, as there are too many manufacturers, but in general the picture is sad. On Google I / O conference, where Google shows new products, about smart watch is not it was said neither the words. Moreover, Google generally deleted the category " Clock " from of its online store , where at the same time they disappeared and the most popular Android phone models - LG Watch Style and LG Watch Sport. Well and the Android Wear lineup for 2017 replenished with only a few models, most of them who made it clearly late for holiday company Fossil.
Source: ArsTechnica
