Google gives Wear OS app makers a reason to update more often

iPhone owners have been able to rely on the Apple Watch as a competent wrist-worn extension of their digital lives for a long time. Those with Android have struggled, however, with Wear OS in its latent years thanks mostly to unfocused and uninspired software. Its current era is starting to make up for that, though: with some help from Samsung, Google has been able to inject some new excitement into the platform, especially by launching the Pixel Watch. But besides the base operating system, it'll take app makers to keep this place alive and flourishing. Thus, Google is making an important change that may open up the path to more apps coming out and more updates to the ones already out there.