Older Android Wear Watches Will Miss Out On the v2.0 Update (arstechnica.com)

Posted by msmash on Monday June 13, 2016 @05:35AM from the messed-up-system dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Google hasn't officially made any announcements about what watch hardware will receive the Android Wear 2.0 update when it's released later this year, but it looks like at least a few of the first-generation watches will be missing out. LG says it has no plans to update the original LG G Watch, and now Motorola says it plans to drop support for the original Moto 360. Given Samsung's disinterest in continuing on with new Android Wear hardware, the future doesn't look rosy for the Samsung Gear Live, either. This news comes just two years after Android Wear and many of these watches were originally introduced.

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And they wonder why by Anonymous Coward · 2016-06-13 05:46 · Score: 3, Insightful

This is why smart phone and smart watch sales are tanking. People are tired of perfectly good hardware being obsoleted just because manufacturers are too lazy to support them.