08.11.2012 19:44 Uhr, Quelle: The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Apple awarded design patent for rounded rectangles

Folklore.org has the full story of how Steve Jobs convinced Bill Atkinson to give the Mac OS rounded rectangles as they were developing the first versions. I won't ruin the story, but if you played with early versions of Windows you may remember it had sharp corners, not rounded ones. Rounded rectangles have been a design concept at Apple for a very long time for a reason. So it was largely unsurprising to me that Apple just received a design patent for rounded rectangles -- although these are for hardware, not software

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