Everything old is new again. Someone leaves a prototype in a bar, prototype makes its way into some blogger’s hands, chaos ensues. It’s hard to imagine another device coming along soon. That’s even shrouded in the same layer of security as the iPhone 4. Both gadgets and tech journalism have evolved since those halcyon days. But nothing like a high-profile leak to get the blood pumping in these old typing fingers.
Companies’ protect-the-IP-at-all-cost approach has shifted, too, over the past decades. Plenty of firms have come to understand the power of well-timed leaks. Not to say that any of the Pixel Watch news we’ve seen in recent weeks and months has been intentional. It’s just hard to imagine any of us saying much about an upcoming Google wearable if some information hadn’t found its way online.
The weekend’s restaurant leak comes a few days after a trademark application for “Pixel Watch” popped up online. The timing of everything seems to point to the imminent announcement of the moderately anticipated wearable.
Google’s history with wrist-worn wearables has been in a word spotty. It’s been 7.5 years since the company launched Android Wear. The product arrived with plenty of hardware companies like Motorola, Samsung, LG and HTC.
