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My first reaction to seeing the Samsung tablet was that they flagrantly copied Apple. The connecting cable is nearly identical (what's the probability of that) and the single button in the glass looks stolen from the id of the iPhone/IPad. I'm not a fan of patents, especially software, but there's no reason to violate a design patent because you could make it so many different ways. Samsung is lazily riding Apple's cost tails on this one.

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The connector is PDMI:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDMI

PDMI (Portable Digital Media Interface) is an interconnection standard for portable media players. It has been developed by CEA (Consumer Electronics Association) as ANSI/CEA-2017-A standard Common Interconnection for Portable Media Players in February 2010. Chaired by David McLauchlan from Microsoft, the standard was developed with the input or support of over fifty consumer electronics companies worldwide. [1] It is designed as an alternative to the iPod interface which was used exclusively by Apple Inc.[2]

I think you're referring to the 'shopped photos that Apple released of the Samsung Tablet for their court case. There is no button.

And the rest of the tablet is just a screen. There aren't many other ways to design it.

Samsung does not have any button:

http://www.engadget.com/photos/samsung-galaxy-tab-10-1-unbox...

"connecting cable is nearly identical (what's the probability of that)"

Are you talking technically? As in the connectors and functionality are the same? If so doesn't that seem like a reasonable move considering third-party companies are building peripherals for that connector? If you mean it's the same shape, then yes, it's a small rectangle.

http://www.reddit.com/tb/kr14a

You are right. These are all obvious choices.

The only thing that supports your claim in my opinion is the case, and yet, there is a big "Samsung GALAXY Tab" on top of it. Nevertheless, I cannot but see the similarity. The other examples are weak

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