Court documents: Apple looked to Sony for iPhone design inspiration

Macworld
Jul 25, 2012, 2:30 pm132 pts
According to documents submitted to a California court as part of the Samsung-Apple patent dispute, Apple looked in part to Sony for inspiration in designing its first iPhone, even having an internal designer produce "Sony-like" mock-ups of cell phones that carried the name of the Japanese electronics company.

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