03 Февруари 2010

Rotten Apple

The new Apple keyboard may look stunning at first sight. Unfortunately it is not a one of a kind product. Undoubtedly it does not look like anything else on the market nowadays, but wandering through Google's picture results one day I found the "Sinclair ZX Spectrum" color computer. Production line of the late 80s and early 90s it sure had a cool look for its time. Even presumably cool for some people nowadays. Its stretched keys and flat buttons on the keyboard look so similar to the Apple's mega hit keyboard.
As a friend of mine used to say: "Every new discovery or idea is a well forgotten old one"


ZX Spectrum

By all means I am not a computer design critic, but one should not completely deny the possibility of plagiarism from Apple, as funny as that may seem to some, and of course it is not excluded that this could be just the  gibberish of the blog's author. But I definitely see that they resemble each other.