It is one of the arguments that I hear the most on the street from those who are still reluctant to acquire the Apple Watch. Its square design does not convince everyone, and although for most it is a characteristic of its own that even differentiates it from the competitionOthers see it as a design flaw that makes them not convince them and do not consider their purchase. All is not lost because a new Apple patent speaks precisely of this.
A circular screen that would be applied specifically for a wristwatch, that is what the patent that Patently Apple has revealed to us indicates, and that leaves the door open to a new Apple Watch with a totally new design that could debut in the near, distant future or that we will never get to see.
The patent mentions many technical data that most of us are absolutely incomprehensible, but we can summarize that Apple insists that circular screens are inefficient by definition. Pixels are squares, and in the end coupling many squares into something circular means a loss of usable surface to a greater or lesser degree. That is one of the challenges posed by Apple and that it seems that its engineers are trying to mitigate, not knowing if they have solved it by now.
The competition has opted for more conservative designs, with smartwatches that look like traditional watches, using an interface that mimics traditional watches. This is something that many users ask with the Apple Watch, but if we take into account that most traditional watches are round, fitting a round dial onto a square watch doesn't look too good. That is why the launch of a round Apple Watch is the dream of many. As with all patents, we will have to wait but no one guarantees that this will ever see The Light.