Between Google and Apple, the SmartWatch wars are over before they've even begun

Between Google and Apple, the SmartWatch wars are over before they've even begun ,

We were at the foot of a large and formidable mountain that has the perfect smartwatch at its peak. It is still very early, not everyone is sure of their foot or the right path to take, but we all instinctively drawn to the summit. The thing is, even with all the months and perhaps years standing between humanity and its ideal gadget wrist, the winners of the race are known. Google and Apple have won.

Self smartwatches attempts seem to resurface a few years. There was Microsoft SPOT, the LG GD910 Watch Phone, and Meta shows - to name only three in the last decade - and none of them ever amounted to anything more than a fascinating bulletpoint in history of personal electronics. Perhaps you might have gone through one on your way to buying the latest and new smartphone. It is actually the evolution of smartphones in the primary computer for many people has now created the opportunity for smartwatches prosper.

The challenges miniaturizing displays, processors and technology battery the size of a watch are still present, but the connection that shows a smartphone can offload some of its demands and to do the thing strapped to your wrist to wear more bearable and attractive to use. It also connects the smartwatch into something crucial: an ecosystem of support from hardware vendors and software developers ready. It is they who can lead a product category on the status of niche and into the hands of mainstream consumers, but they require some certainty that their investment of time and resources will not go to waste. This assurance comes from knowing that the connected smartphone is running the right operating system.

Apple Watch launch yesterday spoke enthusiastically of integration "seamless" between the portable device and the iPhone. Similarly, when he presented his ZenWatch at IFA, Asus said that the watch works brilliantly with his Zen UI on Android smartphones. Both are just positive spin on the fact that shows Apple or an Android Wear device without a smartphone attached to it is not a terribly useful thing to have. Most of them are not even display the time all the time, which makes them poor substitutes for watches.

perfect synergy between smartphone and wrist is not good news for everyone

The close working relationship between SmartWatch smartphone links and down user selection in another way. If you really want the look of the Moto 360, you'll want to combine it with an Android handset to make the most of Google's ecosystem. The same is true of the watch Apple and iPhone: they will work well together and fall apart when they are well apart. Windows Phone and BlackBerry users are not served by these devices at all.

Wearables are seen as the next frontier in consumer electronics, both because of new technological advances and because of the rich potential for combining with smartphones that hundreds of millions of people already have . And because the vast majority of these users are already either Apple or the mobile platforms from Google, it only makes sense for development efforts to focus on these two behemoths. It is not very different from the way things panned in the tablet market. Although they have taken different paths to their dominance, Apple and Google relied on the strength of their smartphone software and ecosystem to drive the development of their supply of tablets. Compare them to disastrous BlackBerry PlayBook, which lacked such basic features as a native email client, or beautiful, but insufficiently supported devices in the operating system WebOS and HP TouchPad. Microsoft Windows is the only alternative to the tablet, precisely because it is able to examine the influence of its own ecosystem.

The Apple Watch and Android Wear at least guarantee a large audience for all new products, whether hardware or software. Sony acknowledged and dropped four generations of its own operating system of smartwatch to join the ranks of Android wear suppliers - aligning itself in direct competition with LG, Samsung, Motorola and Asus, HTC and most likely everyone currently make Android smartphones. If even Sony, with all its resources, can not hit on its own, what hope is there for a third alternative beyond Android Wear and Apple's view?

more attractive to the ecosystem of manufacturers alone an ecosystem already in full swing

Facebook has tried to take over a complete smartphone with HTC first and failed miserably. Amazon is currently trying to learn the same bitter lessons with its own fire Phone and BlackBerry is too busy issuing new phones strange to turn to other types of devices. Microsoft is apparently working to make Windows Mobile, though its rumored device will be a fitness band centered rather than an out-and-out smartwatch. Almost everyone and subtracts a direct confrontation with the duopoly of Apple and Google.

The only major holdout may be Samsung, which Tizen-powered smartwatches (as the new speed S) could be within an ecosystem of business by muscular power one company. Cell leaders holders as Pebble, Fitbit and Jawbone are wisely looking to embrace and work alongside the incoming wave of smartwatches rather than fight them directly. With longer battery life, the cheapest price and lighter form factors, they are easy ways to differentiate and survive as complementary products. Apple does not care to fight for sales of equipment with a low profit margin, and Android Wear watches on sale now are relatively expensive even then their manufacturers do little more than break even.

The Pebble will continue to be a reasonable option while wearing watches and app stores are still growing, but eventually it will be too overwhelmed by the greater variety of things you can do with a color and gigabytes of memory screen. The smartwatches we see today are still very raw, but they have already shown flashes of potential enough to allude to their widespread appeal once the current shortcomings have been resolved.

There are still many unknown aspects and still undetermined how (and why ) smartwatches will be used in the future. Two things seem inevitable, however. The first is that we are going to climb this mountain, out of curiosity as much as anything else, and the other is that we will probably do it with smartwatches phones acting as companions rather than as standalone devices. stands now, Apple and Google appear ready to extend their dominance in smartphones to smartwatches without any serious challenge from the world of technology.