One could easily opine there are only so many ways to design a tablet or a smartphone. The argument has its merits and isn't far from truth. With today's mobile gadgets increasingly becoming basically a piece of glass framed by a bezel of sorts, the question of who's copying who gets muddied.
As you know, Apple filed the first in a series of “look-and-feel” lawsuits against Samsung in April 2011 over the design of the iPhone and iPad, forcing the South Korean consumer electronics conglomerate to fire back with infringement allegations of its own.
As both companies remain entangled in a complicated web of lawsuits in courts around the world, Samsung Mobile’s vice president of design Lee Min-hyuk has gone on the record to say he did not rip off the iPhone when designing the original Galaxy S smartphone...