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.
My Seiko Has 20 Years Uptime by zenlessyank · 2016-06-13 05:56 · Score: 4, Funny

Never been patched!!!!
1. Re:My Seiko Has 20 Years Uptime by Jaime2 · 2016-06-13 06:02 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  The crown fell off my Seiko 15 years after I bought it. They paid for shipping both ways to/from Japan and fixed it - at no charge to me.