> Apple lambasts everyone else's designs until they adopt them. Everyone does this. It wasn't long ago that Samsung was laughing at Apple for moving the headp

> Apple lambasts everyone else's designs until they adopt them. Everyone does this. It wasn't long ago that Samsung was laughing at Apple for moving the headphone socket to the bottom. Guess where it is on the new S6. The real question is: does a company adopt a competitor's design because experience in the real world ultimately proved it to be the better design -- or are they adopting it superficially to defensively diminish perceptual marketing differences?