“When 19th century British writer Charles Caleb Colton mused that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, it’s safe to say he wasn’t envisioning today’s tech wars,” Michael Simon writes for Macworld.
“But his timeless witticism has never been more apt,” Simon writes. “Just last week Samsung gave us a peek at its next Gear smartwatch, the Gear S2, and surprise, surprise, it bears a not-so-passing resemblance to Apple Watch’s interface of circular icons.”
Simon writes, “In fact, I’m willing to bet that next year’s Gear S3 is going to ditch the traditional round face for a square one.”
Full article here.
Brad Reed reports for BGR:
In case you need a reminder, this is what the original Gear S looked like when it launched last year:
And then the Apple Watch came out and it featured a home screen with app icons that looked like this:
And then lo and behold, Samsung’s new smartwatch features a home screen with watch icons that look like this:
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: What an incredible coincidence, indeed.
Once Google steals Apple’s watchOS ideas and Android watch makers figure out they need to make square displays (lists are square, not round, and lists dominate smartwatch uses), steal the Digital Crown and Force Touch claiming both were obvious, and begin marketing their insecure knockoffs – Buy One Get One Free! – to the world’s billions of meatheads, dullards, and dopes, they’ll begin to move millions of units at razor-thin profits or, more likely, at a loss. — MacDailyNews, August 14, 2015
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