Yes. Analog time is round, its ingrained in us.
Why does the Apple pencil look like a pencil ?
Ive's genius is taking the purest form of something and making it a computer. The iPad march to a piece of paper, the Apple Pencil, airpods as just the thing you put into your ear, the keyboard with just the main keys and nothing extra on it, etc, etc.
The purest form of something.
Time is round, watches are round, how do you end up with a rectangular watch ?
I just find the Apple Watch completely uninspiring in its design. The materials are amazing (the ceramic - w o w ), the watches faces are of the highest quality, bands are off the charts. The actual watch itself, specially for a new apple product making its mark, has ZERO personality.
Right.. "ingrained", give me a break. I've owned 4 squarish watches since the 1970s.
The reason watch became round, because it was the cheapest way to produce them.
All through the 1920s to 1930s when watches were still luxury items, they were as much squares than round.
It's when the army started pumping them out by the bushell during the late 1930s and 1940s than the round format started to dominate; why? Cost.
In women's watches, squarish watches continued on though because the whole macho, have a watch like those army/aviator guys wasn't as important there.
Vomiting something round like many other mechanical watch for no good reason really and making it look 10 x worse than any of them is not originality; it is slavish copying. Having the courage to not do the same thing is what makes the Apple Watch a success.