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>>And I frankly don't think that Samsung is taking any design clues from anywhere. They don't care what Apple is doing

Uhh... the whole idea with the present generation of smartphone (software) comes from the iPhone. That (and applying it to create pads people were willing to pay for) was new.

Everyone should be able to agree on that, at least.

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> Uhh... the whole idea with the present generation of smartphone (software) comes from the iPhone.

Oh come on. It's an evolution of what was there before; Palm OS was already very clearly moving in that direction. There is very little that is conceptually new in the first iPhone.

The execution was superb, and everyone certainly got shaken awake by the fact that that level of quality was even possible... but the core ideas were already there.

I leave the subject, since I assume you'd argue the same thing about the iPad, even though others had tried to build xPads for many years without anyone wanting the results... :-)

Well no I don't agree with it, at least not in the way that you suggest.

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