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What a complete nonsense. The industry moves in certain directions, and everyone is inspired by everyone else. Because there is a thriving legal industry, they call iit "stealing ideas" and "copying". There is no such thing as original design, every design is based on previous designs and adds small new things.

The only group really benefitting are the lawyers and their surrounding workers. Not our innovating tech industry.

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Generally most people agree that there is a point at which copying too closely is literally "too close" legally. Some people dispute this, they are not in the majority.

Generally people would agree that Apple is entitled to these same protections.

Generally people would agree that every other non-kirf vendor differentiates their product quite a bit moreso then Samsung has, at least on certain products.

This does not mean Samsung has crossed the line of going too close. It just means they are a lot closer to that line then others.

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