why cant you make custom watch faces?

Excronix wrote:

But Samsung allows custom faces and hasn’t been taken to court as do other companies. I don’t think it’s a copyright thing. Especially because Apple isn’t the one managing it. It’s just allowing the user to have the ability to customize their watch face how they want. I don’t think they can be taken to court if someone that bought their product used a custom made face that looks like someone else’s. Other companies do it and haven’t been taken down for it. See what I mean?

Then tell Apple to give you the ability to create your own custom watch face

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Most likely because they do not want to be sued for copyright infringement, because you know someone is going to duplicate another manufacture's watch face, and because Apple has deep pockets, they will be the ones taken to court.