Android Wear Has Not Taken Off: Only 720,000 Devices Sold in 2014

Sales of Android Wear smartwatch fall below expectations and fail to reach a million in a year. Android Wear has had almost a year lead over Apple Watch and recent data seem to show that you have not taken advantage of. Since the first smartwatch compatible with Android Wear rushed toward spring of last year, the market has seen the arrival of so promising devices like the Moto 360 or LG G Watch R. But how has really gone to these products?

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The latest report by Canalys estimates that only 720,000 Android Wear devices sold last year, though of course here we must consider only six months of the year. If the focus further away we see these 720,000 devices were part of the 4.6 million smart watches and fitness band that were sold during 2014.

In addition, the overall feeling that breathes with the latest releases of smartwatch is that companies are not relying too much on Android Wear, a platform intended to replicate the success of Android smartphones, but something is wrong with the formula for success Google. Without going any further, the future flagship of Samsung in the field of smart watches suggests that either incorporate Android Wear, steps also follow the first wearable HTC.

In this sense, the high expectations are set right now in the Apple Watch, which investment firms like JP Morgan and predict about 26 million units this year. Is the arrival of smart watch Apple Android Wear what you need to expand? For one can not deny the important knock-on effect will cause the smartwatch apple, though the shortcomings of the system Google will continue to be there.

Android Wear needs to improve by leaps and bounds and 2015 is the year to do it

Given that the latest iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus sold 10 million units in its first weekend of sales, not be surprising that Apple Watch could overcome in just two days to all Android Wear devices sold in 2014. As we read in Appleinsider, no doubt that Android Wear needs to grow by leaps and bounds if you do not want to stay down by the market for smart watches. If this is finally the year of the boom smartwatch as many expect, there is no better opportunity for Google to put all eggs in one basket.

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