I'm not holding my breath for a Google Pixel Watch in 2021, but man, I'd love to see this rumored smartwatch in the wild. Though I like the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4, I want to use the new Wear OS in a way that's untethered from Samsung smartphones. Who is more ideal to make the hardware than the company that made the software?
The Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 isn't just Wear OS. It's combined with Samsung's own One UI, maintaining a few familiar aspects of the forsaken Tizen platform. In particular, it holds onto Samsung Health for activity tracking and wellness data.And that could be the key feature Google undermines when it releases a smartwatch of its own. And that undermining could happen in 2022 as a new report suggests Google is actively developing a smartwatch.
