What can Google do to compete with the Apple Watch? Not much

If you don't want to spend $400, you can go get a Fitbit Versa or a hybrid smartwatch or - and this is probably the better choice - get an Apple Watch Series 3 for just $200 I have said pretty much all I have to say about the Apple Watch in the review above, but luckily for me a coincidental leak of a Fossil smartwatch showed up, as if it was begging to be compared to the Apple Watch That's doubly true with this Fossil, because it doesn't look super hot next to the Apple Watch.

The Apple Watch overcomes a lackluster first-generation product to become a great product and a massive business for Apple, eating everybody else's lunch Google realizes how far behind it is and tries to get all asymmetrical with its competitive strategy by partnering with watch companies like Fossil and Tag Heuer That's where we stand now, when we see a few images and descriptions of watches that look like they're running Wear OS on an E Ink screen underneath actual, physical watch hands.

Even if both of those things turn out to be true, nailing the execution of an E Ink watch that needs to show information underneath physical watch hands is going to be devilishly tricky That's theoretically a smart move from both Google and Fossil, but it's also a sign that Google is nowhere near being able to take on the Apple Watch directly. . Source