Since the companies adopted the slab form factor for the devices. all smartphone and tablets look the same esp. from the front. I don't see this argument holdi

Since the companies adopted the slab form factor for the devices. all smartphone and tablets look the same esp. from the front. I don't see this argument holding water and it seems to me that my interlocutor is comfortable with Apple stealing/copying other people's work but when they do to Apple it's all hell breaks loose, double standards maybe?