Unpicking the past mistakes of Wear OS is slow going

The big underlying story of Samsung returning to Wear OS for the Galaxy Watch 4 was apps.

Samsung wanted an OS that could offer a decent selection of apps. And Google, without the weight of big numbers of smartwatches running on OS, was struggling to excite developers to create top-class app experiences for Wear OS.

The quality of apps has been one of the major transformations in the eight generations of watchOS, and a big draw to the Apple Watch.
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