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Imitation is supposed to be the sincerest course of flattery , but I do n’t propose readers to rely on that defence in Margaret Court . Not even if you ’re one of the biggest technology companies in the universe .
It remains to be escort , confessedly , whether Samsung is about to find itself in motor lodge . But let ’s just say that the sign of the zodiac are n’t promising . As oneTwitter waghas pointed out , theSamsung Galaxy Watch Ultraand the Samsung Buds 3 are so close to their Apple equivalents that it ’s gruelling to consider the whole thing is a coincidence .
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We ’ve been here before . Between 2011 and 2018 Apple and Samsung fought bitterly in court of law around the human race , accusing one another ofviolating smartphone patents . Apple pointed out that Samsung headphone ( namely the i9000 model of the Galaxy S ) looked quite a lot like its own sound ( namely the iPhone 3GS ) and asked for action to be take . Seven years and a small luck in lawyer ’ fees afterward it feel like very small had been solve , but I hypothecate a point of sorts had been made : copy our designs and at the very least you ’ll be dragged through a long and dearly-won legal cognitive operation .
Amid that case , incidentally , I find to make my one and only show on national television receiver when “ expert ” analysis was required on a newsworthiness show . It ’s possible that the bookers had overestimated my ability to explain copyright jurisprudence to a tea audience , but I did have some success with an doctrine of analogy between smartphones and microwaves . ( I always say that a in force doctrine of analogy is like a friend who ’s good at excuse thing . ) Microwave ovens all seem the same , I argue , because that gadget ’s evolution arrived at an optimal blueprint and there was no longer anything to gain by change the fundamentals . At some point , smartphones will hand that point too , and they may have done so already . The legal system will need to be able to account for that , or we ’ll just be pull some of the companies to make worse French telephone for the sake of it .
But that was then , and this is now , and it must be admitted that the in style case of imitation / flattery feels more blatant than the guinea pig of the Galaxy S and the iPhone 3GS . Based on leaked image , the Samsung Buds 3 Pro do n’t just look like they copied the fundamentals of a pleasing rival intention — they lookexactly likea pair of AirPods . They wait , in fact , like one of those scam products designed to fox you into thinking you ’re hold up the material affair , decent up until you notice they ’re call AirPro Pods and cost $ 11.99 . As for the banding and the squarish rugged look of the Galaxy Watch Ultra … lease ’s just say that using a slenderly dissimilar shade of orange does n’t count as designing your own intersection . I signify , even the back and the band - swapping mechanism appear to be carbon copies of the Apple Watch Ultra .
In a unlike time , the Cupertino effectual squad would be currently assembling , like Voltron in expensive shoe , and gearing up for another heroic engagement . And perhaps they are . But such a battle wo n’t reach anything except be both company a great pot of money and give tech websites something to talk about . But maybe , on some spirit level , Tim Cook can just smile about the whole affair . For a rival party to be push to this horizontal surface of desperate mimicry , the AirPods and the Apple Watch must be rightfully great products , or at least product that every consumer wants to own . And possibly there ’s something to that old saying about imitation and flattery after all .
Foundry
AI is a messand Apple ishere to clean it up .
Arm race : How Apple ’s M3 squares off against theQualcomm Snapdragon X Elite .
Is anApple Vision SEthe key tospatial calculation ’s succeeder ?
Apple’sHomePodspeakersaren’t as smartas we thought .
Podcast of the week
What ’s go bad on with Apple ’s next phone , theiPhone 16 ? That ’s in this episode of the Macworld Podcast !
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Reviews corner
The rumor mill
Apple Watch Series 10 leakshows off anUltra - sized screenin a slim body .
Apple ’s battle to cut the price ofVision Pro ’s successorcould meankey features are lost .
theme of anApple / Meta AI team - upmight have been exaggerated .
Software updates, bugs, and problems
Here’show your conversations withAndroid userswill front in iOS 18 .
Apple justupdated all of its AirPodsand once again wedon’t know why .
Gamers rejoice!macOS Sequoia makes iteasier to install prominent apps .
