On Friday my Huawei Watch was upgraded to Android Wear 2. Over all, I am pleased with the upgrade. Most of the changes that have been made are for the better, but there are UI changes that involve muscle memory, and those are difficult to over come.

Most notable is notifications. With the prior version, you swiped a notification card right to take further action, now you tap the notification to take action, swipe right to remove the notification. 

Some of the apps that I use are not yet optimized for the new notification model, particularly in my case Map My Walk. With the prior version, when I started tracking with the app the View Status view would immediately display on the watch, now it does not. Now, I have to swipe up to see the walking notification, tap the notification, then tap View Stats.

Another issue that I have is with Reminders. While I can create a new reminder using the watch, the reminders that I create only occur on the phone and do not appear on the watch. 

Reminder integration between my phone (a Nexus 6P) and the watch has been an issue, but appeared to be fixed with the upgrade to Google Assistant on the phone. 

It is really disappointing that Google has not integrated Assistant across all platforms. For example, you get to Assistant settings via the Google Home app for the Home and phone assistants, but the Android Wear 2 assistant settings is only accessible via the Android Wear app. 

In my opinion, Assistant should be aware of all the devices that I use with my Google accounts, and I should be able to send information between devices. For example, if I ask the assistant on Google Home to find a recipe, I should be able to tell it to send that recipe, which is a web page, to my phone or tablet. 

The lack of integration across devices when it obviously should exist is a significant problem. In fact, the lack of this type of integration was in my opinion a major issue with Microsoft's Windows Mobile platform. Lack of integration means users do not get full value out of the platform, and demonstrates a lack of planning and execution by Google.