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> A smartwatch should not be burning a lot of RAM. Then again, the Gen 5 has 1Go and works fine. That's the same amount than an Apple watch serie 4/5. > It ha

by brmgb 6y ago

> A smartwatch should not be burning a lot of RAM. Then again, the Gen 5 has 1Go and works fine. That's the same amount than an Apple watch serie 4/5. > It has a battery the size of a dime, it should be doing very little with processor or memory. Wear OS is far from perfect but that's more on the Snapdragon 3100. Samsung and Apple CPU are far better but they don't sell them. It's very much a chicken and egg situation. Qualcomm doesn't invest because there is not market and there is no market because poor CPUs lead to products which are not competitive. Google could have unlocked the situation but I guess they were wainting for the Fitbit acquisition to go through before going back to wearables.

ocdtrekkie 6y ago
Qualcomm isn't the only microprocessor vendor. And even if it was, imagine this call: "Hi, Qualcomm, this is Rick Osterloh from Google. How much money would we need to invest for you to release a smartwatch processor that isn't garbage?" "Hey Rick. We'd need about $$$$." "Great, I work for a trillion-dollar company." Which is to say, Google has the money and power to literally make what it wants happen, if it isn't happening, it's not reasonable or logical to blame another party. It is fundamentally a lack of commitment by Google to support their product line.
- brmgb 6y ago
  > Qualcomm isn't the only microprocessor vendor. Well, actually, on this segment, they kind of are. > It is fundamentally a lack of commitment by Google to support their product line. Yes, I think I did say that repeatedly in the post you are answering. I also talked about the Nexus line. The again, Google did buy a giant of the wearable and fitness industry. It's just that the acquisition took a lot longer than expected. Still, I was initially answering someone calling Wear OS garbage. It is in need of more developers and working on suboptimal hardware however.

by brmgb 6y ago

ocdtrekkie 6y ago

Qualcomm isn't the only microprocessor vendor. And even if it was, imagine this call: "Hi, Qualcomm, this is Rick Osterloh from Google. How much money would we need to invest for you to release a smartwatch processor that isn't garbage?" "Hey Rick. We'd need about $$$$." "Great, I work for a trillion-dollar company." Which is to say, Google has the money and power to literally make what it wants happen, if it isn't happening, it's not reasonable or logical to blame another party. It is fundamentally a lack of commitment by Google to support their product line.

brmgb 6y ago
> Qualcomm isn't the only microprocessor vendor. Well, actually, on this segment, they kind of are. > It is fundamentally a lack of commitment by Google to support their product line. Yes, I think I did say that repeatedly in the post you are answering. I also talked about the Nexus line. The again, Google did buy a giant of the wearable and fitness industry. It's just that the acquisition took a lot longer than expected. Still, I was initially answering someone calling Wear OS garbage. It is in need of more developers and working on suboptimal hardware however.