ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – The Swiss train station clock for which Apple reportedly paid CHF20 million (never confirmed by either company) is gone from its new iOS 7 for mobile devices, which the company says it will release 18 September.
Apple paid the CFF rail company for a license after it used the 1944 design without first asking, on its iOS 6 for mobile devices.
The new clock looks remarkably similar, but the clean lines of the class Swiss design are missing. However, the new clock app icon reportedly is set to the device’s actual time, including the functioning red second hand. The earlier version, with a Swiss clock, is static.
The little shift to the clock is one of the multitude of details surfacing as developers who’ve tested the new system send out their public reports. Here are a couple:
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