iPhone’s calculator is inspired by Braun ET44?
By Dusan Belic on Saturday, July 21st, 2007 at 10:46 AM PST In Apple, Applications, iPhone
iPhone users, have you noticed how cool and simple is the built-in calculator? It seems Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has borrowed an idea from the old 1970’s Braun ET44 calculator. I wouldn’t call it a steal, as I’m not quite sure these sort of things are possible to protect with a patent. Apple simply used the best practices for its device and the result is a simple calculator with familiar look and feel. Nicely done! 
[Via: Gizmodo]
Just wanted to place a trackback link to the original blog post referenced in this wired article from Oyayubizoku…
http://www.air-port.com/blog2/07/19/2007/iphone-calc-braun-et66/