The glossy effect, and all the other UI niceties took thousands of hours of research to perfect. You think they just mocked up the design in a single alpha rele

The glossy effect, and all the other UI niceties took thousands of hours of research to perfect. You think they just mocked up the design in a single alpha release and shipped it as is? No, good UI takes tons of work, not just development but user testing and dozens of feedback cycles. Hard to develop and get right (so that it feels so effortless) yet so easy to copy. How do we protect that?