It didn’t take long after the release of iOS 6 for the Swiss Federal Railway to realise that Apple had nicked its clock design and demand a meeting. And several weeks later, Apple and the SBB have now reached a license agreement for the design, allowing its use in iOS, Cult of Mac reports.
The iconic design was originally created by Hans Hilfiker and copyrighted and trademarked by the SBB.
The details of the deal are unknown, but you would have thought Apple would have ensured such an iconic design was free to use before going ahead with it. Nevertheless, it’s good to see that Apple instantly sought to find a solution, which is more than a certain Korean consumer electronics company would have probably done.
