Android Wear's latest missteps reinforce Apple Watch strengthsGoogle, let's talk about this.
There is no question of the value of text input on a smartphone. As popular as Siri and other voice assistants have become over the past few years, pecking out an email or text message using an on-screen keyboard, with autocomplete and prediction, mimics physical keyboards in the best possible ways.
In the wearable space, the opposite is true. Screens are typically too small, and too oddly-shaped, to facilitate on-screen keyboards, which leaves dictation as the likely ideal way to send someone a message longer than a few words. The Apple Watch, in particular, utilizes Siri for a variety of purposes, from dictating text messages and email replies to asking about the weather.
This week at Google's developer conference, a new version of Android Wear tacitly posited that voice isn't ideal in every situation, adding three new ways to input text on a tiny, often circular, smartwatch screen. The first, Smart Replies, is already used by the Apple Watch i...
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Android Wear's latest missteps reinforce Apple Watch strengths
