Google’s Pixel Watch and Samsung’s Galaxy Watch5 may be based on the same Wear OS 3.x platform, but they won’t get the same level of software support. According to a very revealing Wired interview with Björn Kilburn, Google’s director of product management for Wear OS, the Pixel Watch is set to receive three years of software updates.
On the other hand, Samsung’s Galaxy Watch5 will get four years. The explanation for the discrepancy is that, starting with Wear OS 3.x, Google is no longer in charge of updates for the wearables it doesn’t make. Previous versions of Wear OS had all their…
