tendance
Wearables Galaxy Watch and Apple Watch
it’s been a big couple of years for wearables not only are they becoming more
detached from the phone thanks to things like cellular connectivity but they’re
also trying to be your ultimate health and fitness companion tracking things from
your sleep to your heart health and even your temperature so were to next
to help us get a better idea of what’s coming next both on and off the wrist i
am joined thanks to the magic of the internet by cnet Scott stein Scott it’s so
great to see you hopefully next year we’ll be able to do this in person yeah
hopefully I I I miss seeing real people I agree well let’s talk all things
wearables I want to start with the current situation where os
where are we right now because this was the big year of Samsung and
google rebooting the platform to really take on the apple watch it’s good
but I feel like it still needs quite a bit of work to be a worthy competitor
and what do you think that needs to happen next in 2022 yeah where is
where os is the big question and this year was kind of supposed to
be the year that the reinvention happened, and it felt really just like one
shoe dropping the galaxy watch four I mean Samsung has always had really
good watch hardware the shift to wear os didn’t feel as dramatic as you
would have expected in a lot of ways it was a little more interface tweaks
and app compatibility a lot of the stuff with the galaxy watch for still flows
through Samsung health and assumes that you have a Samsung
wear os watch and Fitbit is owned by google
phone and that’s what’s a little weird because the rest of the wares
future involves a lot more than that and google seems like they’re
picking next year as kind of the larger debut of the platform
it’s going to be rolling out to other watches including fossil watches
next year and rumors keep building of some sort of google made
watch now in some sense people are thinking pixel watch in another
since i think it’s perfectly clear Fitbit has already said that they are
developing a wear os watch and Fitbit is owned by google so
you know to me that’s the one let’s switch to talk about apple and
specifically, the apple watch now so when the series 7 came out in
2021 I think a lot of people saw it as a fairly iterative update you know
no one’s complaining about having a larger screen of course but we
didn’t see any new flashy sensors we didn’t see any improvements to
battery life what do you think is apple’s next big move for the series
8 and onwards the bigger screen was nice but the series 7 really was a
very iterative upgrade and that’s been the case with apple watches
recently the past couple of years have been really iterative
little things it suggests that the whole landscape is kind of done
and finished but that’s not the case with watches i think there’s a
a lot more forward progress definitely sensors and health like you
mentioned but let’s just start with sleep tracking first of all battery
life which you you need for sleep tracking apple’s battery
apple watch
life has hung at the same day and a half zone forever figure that
out figure out how to sleep with this thing and wear it for longer
because that unlocks sleep tracking and while it’s true that sleep
tracking on other devices does not approach what you do
for a sleep study like I have a CPAP so I know what a sleep study
is they’re getting closer and I do think that sleep stages and you
know all that stuff even snore detection stuff other companies
like Fitbit and ura are already doing giving sleep scores none
of that’s on the apple watch uh natively and then uh additionally
I would say all that stuff we look at with like readiness scores
kind of snapshot of your wellness that Fitbit and aura are
doing already I really want that in addition to all the fitness
stuff that apple has because I don’t think there’s any awareness
holistically of what I’m doing when I wake up and I want to see
a lot more of that and then sensor wise you know sure there’s
blood pressure blood glucose that we talk about I don’t know if
the sensor technology is fully their blood pressure stuff that
I’ve heard about that runs through wrist you know is not
the same as a cuff I’d love to see that be there because i
have high blood pressure but I I really think the sleep tracking
and the battery life would be the most obvious ones and
then you know what I just looked at my watch because I’m
