This unreleased Xiaomi Mi Watch sure looks familiar

You know that old saying attributed to Pablo Picasso and later embraced by Steve Jobs about intellectual theft as a way to separate great artists from good artists? Well, if true, that would make Xiaomi’s designers and engineers some of the greatest artists of the modern tech era, seeing how often (and shamelessly) the Chinese company has stolen ideas and concepts from none other than Steve Jobs’s baby over the years.

Unlike the vast majority of smartwatches released with Wear OS lately or even Android Wear back in the day, the Mi Watch adopts a rectangular look. Obviously, Apple doesn’t own any trademarks to basic geometric shapes, but while the Cupertino-based tech giant may lack grounds to sue here, we simply cannot unsee the uncanny resemblance between this unreleased device and the best-selling smartwatch out there.

In addition to the shape of the smartwatch body, Xiaomi is also copying Apple’s signature digital crown, as well as the position of the microphone and secondary button found on the side of the wearable device. Surely, the company could have at least relocated one of these elements or changed the look of the crown to make the resemblance less obvious.