Swiss Federal Railways want money for iPad Clock

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Submission + - Swiss Federal Railways want money for iPad Clock (heise.de)

Submitted by macbeth66 on Friday September 21, 2012 @04:02PM

macbeth66 writes: The actual article is in German, but Google translate does decent enough job to understand the situtation. I do not have any Apple devices, so I can not corroborate

The Swiss Federal Railways SBB see in the new iOS 6 Clock app for the iPad a "unauthorized use" of the famous station clock, the industrial designer Hans Hilfiker had designed for the railway company. It is currently trying to contact Apple in contact to "regulate financially and legally" the matter, said an SBB spokesman told the daily newspaper Blick.

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