Not really - watches are historically round because of roundrel clock faces. A square is a better form factor for literally everything else that an Apple Watch does. So it is the Apple move to shape the watch to perform best at 95% of its tasks, and a Google move to shape the watch to perform best with a subset of available watch faces.
This isn't even new. Casio etc have designed digital square watches for decades because they don't need to be round without clock arms.
This isn't even new. Casio etc have designed digital square watches for decades because they don't need to be round without clock arms.