Is Google FIT enough to catch Apple?

Happy Monday everyone. It's Mark Gurman here. Today, the Apple Watch is really the only smartwatch that matters. It’s so far ahead of anything running Google’s WearOS software and models from Samsung that it’s easy to forget Google got into this market before Apple.

Google announced WearOS, known as Android Wear at the time, with a plan to do what it did for smartphones: create an operating system that runs millions of devices, but leave the gnarly manufacturing to others. Its debut months before the anticipated September 2014 launch of the Apple Watch was designed to pull the rug out from under Google's Silicon Valley rival. WearOS even powered some fairly successful watches like the Motorola 360. But over the past few years, the effort languished, while the Apple Watch is dominating the fast-growing wearables market.