Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 4 switching to Wear OS doesn’t make sense right now

Cast your mind back to 2014: Wear OS was still Android Wear and the Apple Watch, or the iWatch as it was being called, was still roughly a year away from being officially unveiled. The Samsung Gear Live was one of the two launch devices that represented Google’s ambitions to live on our wrists.

Just six months later, Samsung pushed out the Gear S that ran on the company’s own Tizen software rather than Wear OS.

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