The thing that I can't seem to get past is that Samsung (and all the other Japanese electronics makers) has been making televisions that closely resemble the iPad for years now. "Black, rectangular, curved corners, thin bezel" has pretty much been the default design aesthetic of flatscreen displays since their popularization. I have a Philips LCD TV that I bought in late 2007 that could be an iPad if you took it off its stand, blacked out the logo, and put a button on one end of it.
Just because Apple shrunk the black curved rectangle with uniform bezel down into tablet form doesn't mean they actually invented anything new design-wise. They certainly improved upon existing designs, but it's just arrogant for them to try to claim ownership of that particular design aesthetic.
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Just because Apple shrunk the black curved rectangle with uniform bezel down into tablet form doesn't mean they actually invented anything new design-wise. They certainly improved upon existing designs, but it's just arrogant for them to try to claim ownership of that particular design aesthetic.