>Is there a business reason behind playing catch up in big companies? Yes, it's called "letting other companies subsidize your market research". I don't know

>Is there a business reason behind playing catch up in big companies? Yes, it's called "letting other companies subsidize your market research". I don't know that the copy cats are really failing to live up to anything. I'd say that android is a glowing success. Not only that, but if google builds and android-based tablet, it might force apple to de-suckify the iPad. Competition is good for everybody including the companies that are competing; it incubates innovation.