Its not like Jony is completely innocent from copying though. People who think otherwise have never heard of Brauns most influential designer Dieter Rams...
Again and again, repeats of the most ridiculous accusations against Apple, this time however with at least one photo that demonstrates what nonsense it is!
Someone seems to be suggesting that Dieter Rams and Jony Ive look similar... I think Mrs Rams and Mrs Ive would be very surprised to hear that.
2nd photo: Can you tell me where you see any similarity? Especially with the photo on the left showing an LP player on top of a speaker, which anyone with the slightest intelligence knows is absolutely the one place on earth where an LP player doesn't belong? (Think of vibrations from the speaker getting transmitted to the LP player. Pure idiocy. Dieter Rams would shoot you if that is how you used his system).
3rd photo in the first and the third row: So the two most different looking items that you could think of, and Apple managed to copy them simultaneously with the iMac! That is pure genius, and my admiration for Jony Ive has no end. The first item is a TV. An ordinary TV with a huge glass tube, about as deep as high, and since it shows a pretty picture, and the iMac shows a pretty picture, the iMac is obviously copying the TV. At the same time, the iMac also manages to copy Rams' great loud speaker. That speaker is actually almost man high, and wider, and is hanging in a frame. Since the two iMac photos show the same iMac, just from different angles, the first photo makes it blatantly obvious that speaker and iMac don't look one bit similar.
4th photo: That's the radio clock that supposedly looks like an iPad. But for that, they had to put the clock on its side. In reality, you would have it standing flat. And if you took a photo not exactly from the front, you would see that it is about 5 inch deep, not 1/2 inch like the iPad. Similarity = zero.
Photo pairs 5, 6 and 8 are hilarious. The pair 5 and the pair 6 are commonly used to demonstrate the similarity between some Dieter Rams design and a Mac Pro. However, and that's where are copycat accuser made a big mistake, the left picture of pair 5, the left picture of pair 6, and both pictures of pair 8 show the exact some Braun product! So you are telling us with a straight face that the MacPro looks like a radio... How stupid can you be. BTW in photo five, the left side shows a speaker covered with cloth, the right side shows the Mac Pro's aluminium grill.
A 4 year old can clearly see that the interface of the iPhone calculator is nearly identical to the physical one next to it. Yes, most calculators are rectangular with buttons.... But do they all have rounded buttons? Are they all black? All of them have a small yellow "=" button in the lower-right corner?
If you SERIOUSLY (ask yourself, seriously) can't see the design similarities, you are in a very serious state of denial.
Leonard, look closer.
Small LCD display with digits made of segments, grey on greenish background vs. high resolution font, black on white/blue gradient background.
Two round lights, red and green, and two tiny switches, vs. nothing.
25 keys vs 20 keys.
Different arrangement of the remaining keys.
And now take both devices and rotate them by 90 degrees...
Original keys in a rotated position vs. totally new layout with enhanced functionality.
Nothing vs. speaker at the top and home button at the bottom.
I think a 4 year old would see that there is actually very little similarity.
Believe it or not, Including early blackberries. the fact that they made that EGADS moment despite their OWN bloody products was more telling about how stupid they were as a corporation at the top, than saying apple invented putting a computer in a phone.
