Since the watch brand Fossil released the Gen 6 smartwatch series equipped with the Wear OS system in August 2021, the outside world has been waiting for the news of Gen 7 for the past two and a half years, during which Fossil only launched the Wellness version for Gen 6 at the end of 2022, and the specifications remain unchanged, the only difference is that the system version has been changed from the previous Wear OS 20 to 30。
At the end of last year, there were foreign ** reports that Fossil would stop launching Wear OS smartwatches, and the company also began to offer deep discounts on a number of smartwatches, seemingly to clear inventory. Now that Fossil has finally confirmed its exit from the smartwatch business, in response to a query from **The Verge, group spokesperson Amanda Castelli said that the smart watch market has undergone significant changes in recent years, which has led them to make the decision to withdraw from the smartwatch business. Fossil will reallocate resources to support its core business units, which include the design and distribution of traditional watches, jewellery and leather goods under its own and licensed brands, to capitalize on strong growth momentum.
While Fossil has decided to exit the smartwatch market, they have promised to continue to provide updates to existing Wear OS smartwatches. Ever since Google partnered with Samsung in the development of Wear OS, the latter has always had the advantage of being able to pre-install and update the latest version of Wear OS earlier than other manufacturers, such as the Wear OS 4, which was released with the Galaxy Watch 6 series in July last year, and other manufacturers have not yet been able to pre-install and update, with the exception of Google Pixel Watch.
Data & ***gsmarena