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Google Might Be Working On a New Smartwatch, Report Says (androidpolice.com)
According to new job listings (first spotted by Android Police), it looks like Google may start building its own wearable devices. "A job listing posted two days ago on the Google Careers site calls for a Vice President of Hardware Engineering for Wearables," reports Android Police. The description reads, "As the VP of Hardware Engineering for Wearables, you'll work collaboratively with the Senior Leadership team for Google Hardware and will be responsible for the design, development, and shipment of all Google's Wearable products. You will lead and enable the effectiveness of a large engineering organization primarily based in Mountain View to develop multiple next-generation wearable products simultaneously." From the report: Google's only current wearable product is the Pixel Buds, which hasn't been a runaway success. It seems extremely unlikely that the company would want a Vice President dedicated to producing earbuds, so it's safe to assume Google has plans for other wearable products, like fitness trackers and/or smartwatches. Another listing is for a "Wearables Design Manager," but the description is more vague. "As the Design Manager of the Wearables design team within the award-winning Google Hardware Design organization, you will be a critical leader and contributor to guide the efforts in defining and evolving what it means to hold 'Google in your hand.'"
Google Smartglasses. Or Google Glasses, for short.
...on a phone to be useful are a dead end.
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
Wear no evil.
In actuality ... we don't.
Smartwatches are the ultimate poser snob item.
Their only purpose is to let you identify whose personality is plastic enough to need such a thing.
Bingo. Gadget lovers with their Rolex fetish in the 80's became gadget lovers with their phone-watch-device fetish in the 00's. I guess you can't fault Google for slapping a fat price tag on a way for users to track themselves for marketing...
I mean, not anymore than you can fault them for anything else they do in plain sight or otherwise. "They jump right into the boat" "fucking morons" "Step 4: Profit"
Wait... hold up a finger there bartender... are you telling me with a straight anecdotal face that you thought Donald Jumpsuit Drumpf was a "good guy" and you trusted him? ... Bwahahahaaaa! OMG, seriously? No. Not possible.
There are people over 90 who can still drive a car, how old are you to be that senile? History of head injury, professional football? Are you suffering from chronic monoxide poisoning perhaps? Lead exposure? Let's narrow this down.
Even Trump's fucking illegally imported whore wife doesn't trust him beyond the next check. NOBODY is that dumb. He's been a con man all his life, he's famous for it, and being a poof who goes bankrupt every other year.
YOU TRUSTED HIM? Lol. Haha. Fuck you, that's too hilarious.
And yet, in the past year or so I've noticed that almost everyone I work with, in 2 completely unrelated industries, wear one, as does almost everyone I interact with socially.
Sure, it's popular to hate on the people wearing one, until you realize that it's no longer only a couple of early adopters. The fact is, these devices provide useful functionality to people which they value. Despite pretentious idiots who want to pretend they're superior simply because they DON'T have one.
Optimized for abandonment!
"The fact is, these devices provide useful functionality to people which they value" - The people they value are Google top-level shareholders. Your value is to them, not the other way around. You trade convenience for sovereignty without thinking.
I'm not saying you're thoughtlessly pretentious and there's "no upside" to you gadget-pda-tablet-watch-phone-flamethrower fetishists who want "feature x" for $299 and don't really care about potential pitfalls 1-3,472. Sure there's an upside.
You're much more locate-able by people who want to do that, and trackable with a long-lived dataset you don't control. Enjoy feature-x. It's whizzy bango bro!
He would get voted out next election, but the democrats are going to try as hard as possible not to make that happen. I figure next candidate will at least be a man who identifies as a black woman. Then they get all the check boxes.
The question is, How long it will be before Google's very limited attention span can focus on it and moves on to the next shiny pebble?
You'll have to take my Pebble from my cold, dead hands before I give it up. The timers, alarms, reminders, calendar, and Caller ID on my wrist are all too useful to give up.
My smart watch is quite big. It is also heavy, so I don't wear it on my wrist. I put it in my pocket. It has 5+ inch screen size which makes it easy to use. Some people call it iPhoneX but who cares what it is called.
"And yet, in the past year or so I've noticed that almost everyone I work with, in 2 completely unrelated industries, wear one, as does almost everyone I interact with socially."
That has a name: "confirmation bias" Did you know about it?
Yes, your environment is keen about smartwatches. In other places you can't "live" without a Montblanc pen or a Rolex watch.
Yes, there are a lot of places which exhibit "cliche totems".
on your wrist.
A mic on your wrist.
PRISM to walk around with.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
No longer satisfied sucking all your private information from cyberspace - Google executives giggle at the possibility of users voluntarily relinquishing all personal information about meatspace as well....
Which non-coincidentally excites the Chinese, who can simply steal all your data from the devices which will ultimately be build there....
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Google bought fossil, right?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2019/01/17/google-is-buying-fossils-smartwatch-tech-for-40-million/amp/
Smartwatches are pretty much the ultimate "solution in search of a problem."
Seriously, if your watch isn't using e ink, just corner the market on Pebble battery replacements.
Another Google Gadget that could be awesome but that somehow always has some stupid flaws and that will be abandoned by Google just about the time you've figured out that you might like it aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand it's gone.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Three weeks ago it was widely reported that Google had just bought a big chunk of smartwatch tech from Fossil. It's hardly surprising they now would be hiring more people for that.
But here we have a Slashdot article about an Android Police article celebrating their ability to sniff out the next move of the big G through a job posting, when both Slashdot and Android Police wrote about the Fossil acquisition in mid-January.
Great job, super sleuths.
Is this the first time you ever filed taxes, snowflake? Here's a hint for you: the middle class ALWAYS gets raped by taxes. That's what the tax code IS FOR.
News Flash: Google working on smart watch after acquiring Fossil's smartwatch technology.
Earlier, Google working on smart phone OS after acquiring Android.
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