Swiss watch exports had their biggest decline in six years in October, led by a 39 percent slump in shipments to Hong Kong, the industry’s largest market. […] “2015 has been one to forget for the watchmakers,” said Jon Cox, an analyst at Kepler Cheuvreux in Zurich. Corinne Gretler | „Swiss Watch Exports Fall Mostweiterlesen

Some third-party developers have already hacked together a solution that makes Android Wear work on iOS. Another developer has discovered „iOS related code“ in Android 4.4 that he believes implies that Google has been working on iOS compatibility for Android Wear. Last October, Android Wear product manager Jeff Chang didn’t rule out the possibility that Googleweiterlesen

Das für mich zentrale Zitat aus Grubers exzellentem Apple-Watch-Artikel: I think Apple Watch is the first product from an Apple that has outgrown the computer industry. Rather than settle for making computing devices, they are now using computing technology to make anything and everything where computing technology — particularly miniature technology — can revolutionize existingweiterlesen

Talking with Google engineering director David Burke confirmed that all of the new Android initiatives announced at the keynote this week—Android Wear, Android Auto, and Android TV—will have user interfaces and underlying software that is controlled by Google, not by the OEMs. Andrew Cunningham | Ars Technica Individuelle Skins und Themes von Mobilfunkern und OEMsweiterlesen

Manchmal sagen die Themen, über die nicht gesprochen wird, mehr über eine Veranstaltung aus, als die tatsächliche Präsentation. Auf der diesjährigen Google I/O-Keynote fanden Google+ und Google Glass beispielsweise nicht statt – obwohl sie dazugehört hätten. Ein knapper Zeitrahmen war nicht Schuld: Sundar Pichai und sein Team verbrannten 3 Stunden mit teilweise konfus zusammengewürfelten Themen.weiterlesen