For those who noticed Samsung’s Galaxy Watch Extremely and felt it appeared acquainted, you are not alone it appears.
The brand new wearable, which marks the corporate’s debut rugged ‘Extremely’ smartwatch bears more than a passing resemblance to the Apple Watch Ultra and Ultra 2, and it hasn’t gone unnoticed by Samsung’s chairman in accordance with a brand new report.
In accordance with Ajunews (translated), Samsung chairman Lee Jae-yong is disillusioned at how carefully the brand new watch and the Buds 3 collection, which look just like AirPods, ape Apple’s current design.
Samsung boss lower than happy by firm’s ‘Apple design plagiarism’
The report says:
“It is a strict order that Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong, who’s well-known inside Samsung Electronics for his mild nature and doesn’t normally get indignant, not too long ago issued a strict order to staff of the MX division [Samsung’s mobile division].”
“In accordance with an insider at Samsung Electronics, personnel actions had been additionally taken in opposition to some executives, together with the group head of the MX division.”
“Chairman Lee himself stepped ahead as controversy over Apple design plagiarism and high quality arose over the Buds 3 collection and Galaxy Watch 7 launched final month. The present inner environment is just not superb.”
It will be attention-grabbing to see how Samsung works to distinguish its gadgets from their Apple counterparts going ahead, however for now, it appears Jae-yong is lower than happy.
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