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The Samsung F700 sure looks like an iPhone, at a distance, until you try to type on the thing and realise it has a pull-out hardware keyboard. How did that work out for successive designs?

It makes you wonder if Apple really was copying off Samsung, as this article suggests, then why was no single Samsung model was as least as successful as the iPhone in the same time frame?

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This is a huge strawman... No where is it claimed by anyone that Apple copied Samsung. The only thing that's obvious from this picture, and it is obvious, is that rectangles with rounded borders and a look a feel that's dominated by a huge screen with no ornaments is an obvious idea that Apple should not have monopoly over.

> No where is it claimed by anyone that Apple copied Samsung

Except in the PDF linked in the first sentence of the first paragraph.

> if Apple really was copying off Samsung, as this article suggests

That is not AT ALL what the article says. It doesn't even hint at it. Hell, it even almost says the exact contrary at the end when drawing a parallel with GUIs.

Lack of an over arching incredible vision? Lack of a genius of marketing at the helm? Those two are off the top of my head. It really just seems that Jobs led a better team to better execute stuff other people were already working on, but he saw how it could all be great. Not a bad quality by far, but not worthy of making them the only company allowed to work on touchscreen phones for sure.

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