Samsung is attempting to Beat Apple to market with Smartglasses and the Google-Samsung Unified Platform could accelerate their project
Over the years Samsung has beaten Apple to market with the Phablet, Galaxy Note with S Pen support, Galaxy Watch and the Galaxy Z and Flip foldable smartphones with a tri-fold Galaxy smartphone in-the-works. On the smartwatch front, being first hasn't done much for them, as Apple continues to dominate this product category. In March Patently Apple posted a report titled "In 2020 Apple Watch was the Global Leader, Tripling Second Place Huawei's Shipments." Apple crushed the competiton including Huawei, Samsung and Fitbit. Apple tripled Huawei and double Samsung+Fitbit combined. That's why Samsung and Google announced that they're now combining Samsung's Tizen OS with Google's WearOS into a unified platform so as to better take on Apple's watchOS starting later this year.