iPhone 5 Design Inspiration?
Pretty clear now where the design inspiration for the longer narrow hardware came from.
 The iPhone 5 |
 The Hal 9000 |
And from what I have come to understand, Siri is not all that unlike Hal himself. The vocal inflections are not all that different.
Here is an old Apple commercial starring Hal from 2006. So you know people at the fruit company have had it on their mind.