Swatch is set to take on Apple and Google with its own smartwatch software, the Swiss firm has revealed.
He is said to offer the software to other watchmakers and the technology companies and claims will be more flexible and uses less energythan the Apple WatchOS and use Google's Android. Swatch Group, whose brands include Omega, said that it was working with the SwissResearch Institute CSEM to launch an 'ecosystem' of objects connected to end of 2018.The the world's largest watchmaker has been skeptical of the smartwatches, using systems like Google's Android, TizenOS from Samsung, Apple WatchOS to connect to the internet using and so far has released connected under its brand Tissot and Swatch watches with limited functions. CCS Insight expects the market for smart wearables to almost double to 185 million units worth $16.9 billion 2021.Nick Hayek said the biggest problems facing competing smartwatches related to privacy and energy consumption. Swatch said itwould offer absolute data protection and ultra low power consumption and does not need updates regular.' don't want to be the industrystandard for the smartwatches,' Nick Hayek said Thursday, adding that it would be dangerous if the world depended on only one or twooperating systems key.' but in Switzerland we have a lot of knowledge when it comes to creating something that is smaller consumes much less power, is more cost-efficient and independent and you can goin small objects,' he said.
Swatch had many requests from small startups in the United States in search of flexible open-source systems and serve these customersand also using the system in their own watches, said.
Ben Wood, of CCS Insight analyst, said that there were dangers in Swatch trying to build their own system, adding that it would be difficult to compete with Google, Samsung, and Apple, which had more resources in this area.'Swatch to be able to develop its own software platform, but also to attract developers to access the most popular applications need an operating system with scale. Just look at how BlackBerry ended up abandoning its own software,' wood said. But if Swatch was able to offer something unique you might be able to break into the market, Francisco Jeronimo in IDC, he said, adding that 'a mammoth task' was one.However, users had not yet locked into a specific interface in what isa still new segment, therefore offers an opportunity for Swatch, said Jerome

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