This is an homage - Apple makes it absolutely clear as to whether they adopted Hilfiker's clock for the iPad, whether they adopted the 1977 Braun calculator for

This is an homage - Apple makes it absolutely clear as to whether they adopted Hilfiker's clock for the iPad, whether they adopted the 1977 Braun calculator for the iPhone, or Dieter Brahm's Tape recorder for the Podcast app. They are paying tribute to those iconic designs. I guess the question is - whether someone who was going to purchase Hilfiker's clock for their wall, will mistakenly purchase an iPad instead... Seriously though - I have to believe in this IP excited environment that we're in, that the lawyer must have signed off (in triplicate) before they released this clock on the iPad.