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The Swiss had the right idea, but they made a crucial mistake in their implementation: they completely missed that people might want to look at the watch while
by Tichy 14y ago
The Swiss had the right idea, but they made a crucial mistake in their implementation: they completely missed that people might want to look at the watch while on the move, and opted for a stationary, heavy and immobile implementation.
By putting it onto a small, portable device, Apple arguably added the crucial ingredient to make it a mass success (billions of users instead of a few Swiss citizens, who even have to be forced by their government to use it).
So I think Apple added the most important aspect to the mix and should therefore be considered the inventors of the clock design.
- rmoriz 14y agoYour arguments are invalid: 1. Swiss people are not forced to use the railway, the literally love it. Also the design was licensed by other European railway companies e.g. Deutsche Bahn 2. You can already buy mobile devices (watches) and even a licensed iOS mobile app with the design. E.g. the German edition http://www.bahn.de/bahnshop1435/shopxml/design/zeitzeichen/armbanduhr_herren.shtml http://www.bahn.de/bahnshop1435/shopxml/design/zeitzeichen/a... or the Swiss original http://www.sbbshop.ch/pub/index.php?page=goods&c=8&l=de&sbbsid=babf9af73eee4b84bc8151cbf6db576d&l=fr&l=de&l=fr&l=it&l=en&l=de http://www.sbbshop.ch/pub/index.php?page=goods&c=8&l...
- Tichy 14y agoYeah, but those are not really digital, so they are irrelevant.
- rmoriz 14y agoThe "SwissRailwayClock" iOS app is digital and… licensed. German: http://www.blick.ch/news/wirtschaft/apple-klaut-bahnhofs-uhr-der-sbb-id2040821.html http://www.blick.ch/news/wirtschaft/apple-klaut-bahnhofs-uhr...
- Tichy 14y agoDidn't know that. But if it was an iPhone app before, I think it is OK. It is their phone and their platform, so they can do with it what they want.
- abcd_f 14y agoHe was joking. At least I hope he was.
- sschueller 14y agoIt is already on every SBB LCD on almost all trains/trams/buses. http://goo.gl/k4phm http://goo.gl/k4phm