Google is hiring a VP of engineering for wearables, but what does that really mean?

guest · Feb 9, 2019

Google is hiring a VP of engineering for wearables, but what does that really mean?
Google’s smartwatch strategy is confounding
February 8, 2019
https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/8/1...rables-wear-os-pixel-watch-rumors-speculation

Last night, Android Police caught two new job listings at Google: “Vice President, Hardware Engineering, Wearables” and “Wearables Design Manager, Consumer Hardware.”

Given the sorry state of Wear OS smartwatches, everybody has their fingers crossed that this finally means that Google is getting serious about doing something to improve its smartwatch offering — specifically, by making one itself.
It’s certainly a reasonable conclusion to jump to.

Wear OS as a software platform has a nice enough user interface, but it suffers from lag, stutter, and disinterest from third-party app makers. A new processor could help with the first two, and an actually good watch made by Google might help with the third.
Do all of these clues add up to Google making its own smartwatch? Probably. Do they also add up to the VP of Hardware for Wearables having a tough job? Definitely.
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