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Originally Posted by kacir
What exactly is worth protecting about the design of a tablet in a form of rectangle with rounded corners? Ha?!?
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Don't ask me.
I'm certainly not defending apple here. I'm saying the system (patent, trademark, design flavor, whatever) is ridiculous.
The flat rectangular block with rounded corners is the evolution of the design for cell phones/mobile computer just as the numberless clock with enhanced 5-minute steps (and marked minutes) is the "natural" most basic look of a clock without numbers.
The seconds hand itself is, in my opinion, not really enough to claim it's a unique design.
I'd believe apple if they said that it is a coincidence.
[edit]Serious request - could someone link a numberless clock design that is different from that above? I re-checked the link, but all I see are clocks that use the same principle - marking each minute, specially marking five-minutes or perhaps 15 minutes.