Android Wear soon be compatible with the iPhone – ZDNet France

Are the barriers falling? According 01Net, Google could launch a version of iOS Android Wear, what associate watches animated by this platform and iPhone or iPad … A first that should not leave indifferent technophiles.

The information has not been confirmed but could give wings to watch market connected Android Wear by opening the iOS devices (Apple Watch for Android compatible, so do not expect too much an openness from Apple …). For it must be said that for now, the Google penalty approach to convince.

If Motorola pulls out of the game with the Moto 360, the rest of the market is fighting for crumbs. Approximately 720,000 Android Wear connected watches were delivered in 2014, a total of 4.6 million, says Canalys.
  In detail, Motorola is the leader in this segment with the Moto 360,
 but the study notes that the firm shows connected LG G Watch R
 has sold much better than the previous generation of the brand, the G
 Watch. In the same time, Asus and Sony came to rub shoulders with actors
 existing on the market for Android connected watches.

  market 4.6 million connected watches however made by
 nice to entry-level products. Xiaomi has sold more than a million
 Mid Band.

Faced with this market in mind, what about the predictions made on behalf of the Apple Watch? JP Morgan
  Watch says that Apple would sell 26 million units this
 year and 55 million in 2016. Forrester believes that it should in
 sell 10 million units. A figure also suggested by Piper
 Jaffray.

Even with the low estimate, the Forrester
 this would mean that Apple elapse in 2015 twice watches
 connected, sold at a high price than the market was 2014. A mild
  dream, bet the

Update 3:02 p.m.. In February, a developer has demonstrated the ability to make compatible the watch 360 Moto Android Wear with iPhone, without having to go through a jailbreak of the Apple device. To achieve this, Mohammad Abu-Garbeyyeh the XDA community was inspired by the system used by Pebble watches. He was able to use the Apple notification API, Apple Notification Service Center (ANCS), to display a message sent on an iPhone 6 on the screen of the Motorola shows. Only simple notifications are possible at this stage. The developer announced that it would make available its technical solution in a few weeks.