| I don’t understand why Apple made such blatant mistake. Originally the clock app wasn’t included on the iPad. This version of clock is well made, simple to use as this kind of app should be. Not rocket science but alternatives version are clearly missing on the Appstore.
(I looked for one of them that could replicate the one I have on my Android 4 Galaxy S2). (Re)introducing the Clock app is great, but borrowing the design of very well known clock is a even better. It fit the trend of Apple reunding well known texture and design. If that trend is good or bad is another question fueled by love and hate feelings. But Mondaine, the owner of that clock design, have licensing option already in place :
http://www.mondaine.com/private-label/ Apple could have just bought the licence of this design. End of story. Apple could also have taken this opportunity to ask worldwide watchmaker to give their clockface designs for the official Apple Clock application. I am sure every watchmaker in the world would have even paid fro that privilege. After all they are all spending millions in magazine adverts. I don’t understand the position of Apple just after the Samsung lawsuit. The result is to show Apple being arrogant once more and it put the company in a mismatch branding situation that could have been avoided. Clearly somebody at Apple is not doing his / her job. We’re talking about a Clock application here! Not Maps which is another fiasco much much more difficult to fix. That kind of decision never been the role of Steve Jobs. Who else is missing at Apple ? |