Jon Prosser is the source.
The real Moto 360 was not a perfect piece of technology. The battery life was barely lasting a working day with the always-on display enabled. It was sluggish even by the standards of the Wear OS, thanks to its unusual choice of processor. The cutout for the flat tire display was a necessity because of the technology used to allow edge-to-edge watch faces.
It's one of my favorite watches of all time because it was so unconventional. It was not trying to take a traditional watch design and use smart technology in it. It tried to imagine how a watch would look if it were built from the ground up in the age of the phone.
Phil Nickinson is from Android Central.
This trend did not catch on in the broader world of watches. Even though Wear OS and the SAMSUNG GALAXY WATCH are present, the devices look the same as any other fashion watch. The Wear OS device looks like a poor imitation next to a real high-end timepiece, even though the function has improved.
One of the major strengths of the Apple Watch is that it doesn't try to look like a traditional watch. Apple isn't trying to recreate the look and feel of a Rolex despite dabbling in the ultra-premium price segment with an 18-carat gold option. The entire product is built around the idea that the product is a wrist computer and not a mechanical timepiece.
The Apple Watch has a unique and unmistakable profile on the wrist. The same design ideals as a modern phone are used, with a display on your wrist and few unnecesary distraction.
Jon Prosser is the source.
The design qualities that I loved about the original Moto 360 are exactly what those are. The bare front face of the device made it look like it was from the future, even if the technology inside it was firmly entrenched in the past.
I'm happy that the leaked images show the same direction as the upcoming Pixel Watch. The leaked promotional images promise a "round, bezel-less design" that "unifies hardware and software." The edge-to-edge watch faces that I loved on the Moto 360 are not likely to be available on the Google Wearable. This kind of thing is not possible on displays with image-burn-in. It's still embracing what it is, and not trying to look like a traditional fashion watch.
The market share of Google's Wear OS has gone up to 17.3% in the past quarter compared to 3.2% a year ago. Almost all of the growth can be attributed to the watch. If the marketing push around the Pixel Watch is close to the money put behind the Pixel 6 series, it could be onto a winner.
The Pixel Watch looks to be a watch-like Wearable, just like the one that was created by the company with the Pixel 6. It's minimalist, sci-fi aesthetic and focus on a borderless display could make it the successor to the Moto 360 that I've been waiting for since 2015. I'm hopeful that this could be one of the best watches on the market in the next few years.
