Copying Apple Watch won't make Samsung's Gear S2 any better (or worse) - Macworld
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. It doesn’t take a genius to see that Apple got it right with its watch. Sales figures aside , Apple Watch offers an experience that is perfectly tailored for the wrist, and in a few years, more and more competitors are going to follow its lead. 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. It’s become so commonplace for companies to borrow good designs and ideas that a company like Xiaomi—which went so far as to use Steve Jobs’s trademark “One more thing…” slide in a keynote last year—writes off serious accusations of plagiarism as... PARC begat Mac OS. Mac OS begat Windows. OPENSTEP Begat Mac OS X. Mac OS X begat Windows 7. And Snap begat Split View. And if Samsung’s round interface is better than Apple’s, it won’t matter that its icons happen to look the same. I’m not talking about 3D printers, blending coolers, or even the Apple Watch–something truly new that we’ve never seen before that has the potential to shift the landscape doesn’t come along very often. Source: www.macworld.com
