Right after this article was circulated internally, Apple industrial designer Shin Nishibori was directed to prepare a Sony-like design for an Apple phone and then had CAD drawings and a three-dimensional model prepared. Confirming the origin of the design, these internal Apple CAD drawings prepared at Mr. Nishiboris direction even had the Sony name prominently emblazoned on the phone design, as the below images from Apples internal documents show..Soon afterward, on March 8, 2006, Apple designer Richard Howarth reported that, in contrast to another internal design that was then under consideration, Mr. Nishiboris Sony-style design enabled a much smaller-looking product with a much nicer shape to have next to your ear and in your pocket and had greater size and shape/comfort benefits. As Mr. Nishibori has confirmed in deposition testimony, this Sony-style design he prepared changed the course of the project that yielded the final iPhone design.
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