I can't say if the iPhone did influence that line of products for Landscape forms, but it is an interesting comparison, and something I hadn't thought of before. A small digital smartphone influencing large common objects in the landscape. Looking at it now, it makes sense. Smart phones are becoming the single most used object in a person's life. If we are used to and comfortable with a form, than we will be comfortable when we see a similar form in the world around us. And I bet it won't be long until that subway or transit map is interactive becoming essentially a very large smartphone with one app, Maps.
I'm keeping my eyes wide open for patterns in design influence from now on.
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