Michal Marek As part of the legal dispute between Apple and Samsung, Christopher Stringer was summoned as the first witness. This designer from Cupertino belongs to the select few who, under the strict supervision of Steve Jobs and Jony Ivo, created designs for the iPhone and the apple tablet, which later received the name iPad. Stringer showed several other rejected design prototypes of the iPhone and iPad in court, and once again shed some light on the ways in which the California company creates its products.
Typical design features of Sony brand products are clearly visible on some never-used prototypes. For example, the "Apple Proto 87" certainly does not look like it should have anything to do with the work of the Cupertino designers. This flat, metallic black phone design with sharp edges has both controls and connectors on the sides and lacks the simple elegance of Apple's products.
Stringer commented that before the first iPhone was created, Apple designers created hundreds of different models and tried an endless number of design elements on them. The iPad prototype called "Apple Proto 0874" is certainly worth mentioning. This model is interesting for its massive overhanging frame, which was supposed to guarantee better adhesion to the mat. In some ways, this solution, which you can see in the image below, is certainly practical, but Apple has always taken care of a 0874% pure product design. It is therefore not surprising that the "Apple Proto XNUMX" remained only on the imaginary cutting room floor.
Gallery - iPhone prototypes
Gallery - iPad prototypes
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You can view more pictures in the extensive gallery on the server's website TheVerge.
The iPad 7 prototype looks great
It's a shame that some of those prototypes didn't see the light of day
are you crazy none of those prototypes are particularly nice! Max. they resemble the 1st version of the iPhone, but otherwise they are disgusting..
The penultimate iPhone in the gallery is a brand new nokia n9 :)
And the first picture in the SE Satio article :)
24 iphone as a pebble is absolutely luxurious :)
For example, such a proposal in picture No. 23 obviously draws from the design of the iPod, from which, of course, the Nokia Lumia also "draws" a lot. In essence, you can say that this is a gallery of how the iPhone could have looked, but it doesn't look like it, because the person who chose the version for sale had taste... and those that are not manufactured under the Apple brand are made by others (without taste). I find similarities not only with Lumia, but surprisingly also with Samsungs and the rest of the world.
The question remains why this is so. Are designers the same because of technological limitations and Apple setting the bar?
I'm looking forward to the outrageous work, just as Manet's Breakfast in the Grass was..