So expensive watch, with previous generation SoC that is older and worse than competitors, at a price point nearly $100 more than said competitors.
Here we go again... This seems like a product explicitly designed to fail.
The Pixel Watch is official: $349, good looks, and a four-year-old SoC
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Re: The Pixel Watch is official: $349, good looks, and a four-year-old SoC
#12Looking at the Google Store page that compares the Pixel Watch with existing Fitbit smartwatches ( https://store.google.com/magazine/google_pixel_watch_compare ), I'm not sure why most people would buy the Pixel Watch. It's more expensive than the Sense 2 and Versa 4, but it is not a clear upgrade in terms of features.
Right, especially 1 day battery life with Pixel Watch vs 6 days with Versa 4? So for $100+ more dollars you are getting...WearOS and a circular face instead of square? What am I missing that is so great about the Pixel Watch?
Re: The Pixel Watch is official: $349, good looks, and a four-year-old SoC
#13So expensive watch, with previous generation SoC that is older and worse than competitors, at a price point nearly $100 more than said competitors. Here we go again... This seems like a product explicitly designed to fail.
The application processor core used in the SoC (the A53) is a decade old now. ARM’s progress on little cores is absurdly slow.
Re: The Pixel Watch is official: $349, good looks, and a four-year-old SoC
#14Looking at the Google Store page that compares the Pixel Watch with existing Fitbit smartwatches ( https://store.google.com/magazine/google_pixel_watch_compare ), I'm not sure why most people would buy the Pixel Watch. It's more expensive than the Sense 2 and Versa 4, but it is not a clear upgrade in terms of features.
No iOS support either. It's also pretty hilarious that the Fitbits don't support Google assistant but only support Amazon alexa.
I had a fitbit versa 3 and it worked with Google Assistant just fine. I don't know why they say it doesn't support Google Assistant.
Re: The Pixel Watch is official: $349, good looks, and a four-year-old SoC
#15I'd like to be a part of the meetings where it was decided to go forward with the product. "We're not price-competitive, we're using a SoC from the Apple Watch 4 era, and the bezels are wide enough to ride a bicycle on."
"Looks good, when does manufacturing start?"
"I'm sorry, ma'am, perhaps not I've explained myself clearly..."
I mean, is this some tax write off scheme to balance profitable products? What business hinkiness am I missing that makes this a viable product? Because what I'm not imaging is someone in the viewing audience saying, "wow, it's about time Google, this is the watch I've been waiting for!"
Re: The Pixel Watch is official: $349, good looks, and a four-year-old SoC
#16I'd like to be a part of the meetings where it was decided to go forward with the product. "We're not price-competitive, we're using a SoC from the Apple Watch 4 era, and the bezels are wide enough to ride a bicycle on." "Looks good, when does manufacturing start?" "I'm sorry, ma'am, perhaps not I've explained myself clearly..." I mean, is this some tax write off scheme to balance profitable products? What business h…
my guess is Google has been working on this for years, and just needs to ship something.
Re: The Pixel Watch is official: $349, good looks, and a four-year-old SoC
#17Google lost interest in smart watches for years, and now we're supposed to trust them again? I had a watch with Android Wear, after the updates stopped Google's own apps started losing features they had when I bought the watch (like offline music support).
I'd rather buy a watch from somebody that doesn't treat it like a small side business they can shut down at any moment. Plus, this hardware is very underwhelming.
Re: The Pixel Watch is official: $349, good looks, and a four-year-old SoC
#18I'm glad they released Wear OS 3.5 and hope it soon comes to other watches. When Samsung and Google merged OSes merged to make Wear OS 3, it didn't have Wear OS apps available and was only available on Samsung's watches. Wear OS 3.5 adds Wear OS apps and should be available for other watches.
The Galaxy Watch 4 and 5 should get apps. Fossil has Gen6 series that should get update.
Re: The Pixel Watch is official: $349, good looks, and a four-year-old SoC
#19* If you're an athlete, buy a Garmin
* If you're in iOS user and want an iPhone on your wrist, get a iWatch
* If you like to incinerate cash, buy fireworks... or this watch. The lack of compatible wristbands is enough reason to avoid, let alone the inevitable outcome of you losing access to your investment once Google drops support for bringing a half-baked product to market.
Re: The Pixel Watch is official: $349, good looks, and a four-year-old SoC
#20I'd like to be a part of the meetings where it was decided to go forward with the product. "We're not price-competitive, we're using a SoC from the Apple Watch 4 era, and the bezels are wide enough to ride a bicycle on." "Looks good, when does manufacturing start?" "I'm sorry, ma'am, perhaps not I've explained myself clearly..." I mean, is this some tax write off scheme to balance profitable products? What business h…
my guess is Google has been working on this for years, and just needs to ship something.
Just a shining reflection of Google's piss poor product management skills.