Asked if he told anyone at Apple to copy Samsung’s designs, Forstall replied, “I never directed anyone to go and copy something from Samsung. We wanted to build something great. There was no reason to look at anything they had done.”
HA!
Forstall: Apple wanted to build something great, so there was no need to look at Samsung
Haha, yeah. I saw that too and felt ashamed for Samsung. lmbo. 😀
Yet you can attribute tons of features to prior well known work, Samsung or otherwise, such as 2001: A Space Odyssey from the 60s (a tablet used there), Star Trek (more tablets), etc. While they may not have explicitly gone out and copied Samsung, their patents are often for basic ergonomics (like a rectangular shape, icons placed at the bottom in easy reach of the thumb, multitouch that has been used on stuff like pianos since forever) which should never have been allowed.