New Delhi, June 10 -- For owners of the original Pixel Watch, Google delivered a quiet verdict this week: the four-year-old smartwatch has reached the end of the line.

a notable exclusion given that Google had formally extended software support for that device only through October 2025, a promise it kept.

The absence lands differently for people who paid premium prices for a first-generation product on the expectation that Google's hardware would age as gracefully as its software commitments suggested. It did not.

Whether Verizon's support pages accurately reflect the rollout timeline is another question. The carrier lists June 9 as the release date, but the update had not begun reaching devices as of Tuesday, and Google has made no an...