Google and Samsung are merging Wear OS and Tizen
In yet another sign of the growing alliance between Google and Samsung, today both companies announced that they are essentially combining Wear OS - Google's operating system - and the Tizen-based software platform that has been foundational to Samsung's wearables for many years. The resulting platform will now be known simply as Wear."
Benefits of the joint effort include significant improvements to battery life, 30 percent faster loading times for apps, and smoother animations. It also simplifies life for developers and will create one central smartwatch OS for the Android platform.
We're combining the best of @wearosbygoogle and @SamsungMobile Tizen into a unified wearable platform. Apps will start faster, battery life will be...