Android's openness and freedom admirable, Google Android system will be open to other manufacturers, allowing them to arbitrary customized user interface so the vendors can be flourishing. This is an open advantages, but also disadvantages of excessive open. Open and free to become a double-edged sword Android system.
After accustomed to no threshold door open Android system, many manufacturers slightly closed slightly dissatisfied Android Wear watch system, such as Huawei recently expressed the hope that Android Wear more free, open and more customizable permissions to the vendor.
Huawei's vice president of product Yong said in an interview: "We hope to have more freedom in Android Wear platform we want users to feel that it is their own watch, rather than a standardized watch.."
In fact, in addition to Huawei Perhaps other watch manufacturers secretly have such thoughts. However, Android Wear open, allowing manufacturers to customize more, really is a such a good thing?Differentiation and gain market only through Android Wear customize and modify the system to achieve? It may not be.
Why Google tightening Android Wear?
First, the first point is Google going to ensure a unified system experience. You know, Google's Android mobile phone system in addition to the current, there is Android Wear, Android Auto and Android TV these three platforms. Google control of these three platforms stronger than ever, because it needs to ensure a unified user experience.
For example, a user may have a variety of home, or watch TV, uniform and consistent user experience can be avoided, the user wears the watch manufacturers have to change with another user interface, back to the other room to watch TV, they have to use Another TV manufacturers user interface. If this situation becomes a reality, this time tired to users. Google launched multiple system platforms today, if too many manufacturers to customize the interface blossom, then the entire Android ecosystem will be more chaotic than ever.
Eliminate fragmentation. Android users, you have three words for fragmentation are no strangers, if your hands are not now get Nexus phone, not the Galaxy S6, S5, S4, and the flagship high-end phones such as HTC M8, I believe you would be fragmented understand more deeply, because your hand system may be Android 4.X, and even Android 2.3, touch the pain of it?
This is sufficient to explain a map system had serious level Android fragmentation:
Entered the era of Android 4.X, Google gradually pick up the debris, trying to spell chunks. Up to now, despite initial progress, but still somewhat fragmented. Here we look at this picture:
This picture shows the distribution of the Android system version of February 2015, Android 5.0 LORI gun proportion of 3.3%, 4.4 to 40.9%, 4.3 to 5.9%, 0.4%, in addition to running the 2.2 version, 6.9% in running Gingerbread system.
In addition to fragmentation of the system and the hardware can not support the latest systems, but also custom UI related vendors. This fragmentation of muddy water, Google fumble too. Therefore, in the Android Wear, Google naturally unwilling to step into the same river twice.
We do not and between Andrews manufacturers across a large wave.What does this mean? Because Android system customization serious, each one has its own user interface, such as Samsung has TouchWiz, HTC has Sense UI, LG has LG UI, Huawei's Emotion UI and so on. These pretty OK, at least to modify and customize on the basis of Android, Google also retain service. Some vendors, such as Amazon, after the addition of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), directly to the Google service castration, to its own service instead.
What does this show, many are not using Nexus series of the general public do not know the pure Android system look like? Andrews system between them across many different vendors and UI.
Google also said that the role of Nexus series phones, the first addition to testing the Android operating system, the other role is to let the user know what is the real Android. In addition to the Nexus series of phones, Google also launched Google Play edition phones and tablets, such as Galaxy S4 pure version, HTC M8 pure version as well, such as the Sony Xperia Z Ultra.
To the Android Wear system, Google may not want to meet with manufacturers and users across otherwise specially introduced at a later date, or Google Play Nexus watches pure edition watch?
Manufacturers how to "self-help"
Well, the manufacturer will mention a problem, Android Wear too restrictive, we can not take advantage of customized UI, and can not realize the difference, then how are we going to compete for customers.
On Android phones, the major manufacturers of differentiated focused on crafting UI, UI culture fans also through to the phone's appearance and configuration actually seem similar. If the software is customized Android Wear this road leads nowhere, then can counter with this road to go, the same software experience, flourishing watch appearance and workmanship.If Google built the Android Wear, manufacturers have to watch all the focus on combining work and design excellence, the best software and the best hardware, one can not also gain market way?
For example, now more successful Moto 360 smart watches, it is how to differentiate run on the native Android Wear systems. Bold design with a circular dial, stainless steel case (although the back is plastic), and also offers a variety of strap options for users, such as high-quality leather strap or metal bracelet. In addition, Motorola has also joined the Moto 360 Moto Maker customization program, users can customize the different components by Moto Maker web, such as strap in addition to two sizes can be customized leather and metal chain, but also adds another single type of metal strap style.
Experience in the system, the user interface all the same time, local manufacturers will be able to play in the material, workmanship and design, and this will force the manufacturers need to design good earnest each watch. For example, the latest release of Huawei Huawei Watch is a beautifully designed watches, we believe it will be successful.
Let's look at how Huawei's intention to create this watch, it is equipped with a sapphire screen, Huawei Watch is the first in the world has a sapphire screen smart watches. In addition, Huawei is also equipped with a stainless steel table for its body, watch bezel, crown, body, after the shell 316L stainless steel alloys are used to build.
In addition to timber Huawei Watch highlights differentiation addition, Huawei also supports personalized custom strap and dial, there are more than 40 models of the dial and stainless steel, leather strap two kinds of materials to choose from.
In summary, the following are not allowed to customize Android Wear, does not mean that differences disappear, does not mean that the user's hand wearing a "standardized" watch. In contrast, Android Wear does not allow custom design will bring more carefully, more beautiful, more differentiated look like watches.
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