IT IS probably fair to say that Xiaomi's Mi Watch will not make Sir Jony Ive feel any better disposed towards the Chinese technology company. When quizzed about Xiaomi at a technology summit in 2014, Apple's then chief design officer famously had this to say - though he was careful not to respond specifically: "I'll stand a little bit harsh, I don't see it as flattery. When you're doing something for the first time, you don't know it's gonna work, you spend seven or eight years working on something, and then it's copied. I think it is really straightforward. It is theft and it is lazy. I don't think it is OK at all."
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