ALL YOUR WATCHES BELONG TO US – Google is setting out to replicate in smartwatches, fitness bracelets, etc. the success it had in smartphones – and expanding its dominion over our technological lives. Exec Sundar Pichai announced at SxSW that Google will be releasing its Android operating system for wearables. The software development kit should be available to developers in two weeks. The strategy of licensing its operating system while also selling its own hardware – Google will release a smartwatch this June – has worked well for mobile devices, where Android ships on 4 out every 5 phones and where Android tablets started outselling iPads in 2013. Here's hoping, along with famed designer and LinkedIn Influencer Don Norman, that the OS will help make "smart" wearables a bit less dumb.
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