Italian court denies initial iPhone 4S ban

My thoughts exactly. I love every Apple product I own, but it's the bias and rabid elitism from the fanboys that sometimes make me embarrassed that I own as many Apple products that I do.

Since it is an Apple based blog, I do expect some bias, but sometimes, the levels expressed here are sickening. They bash everyone who does something similar to Apple, but praise Apple for taking other companies ideas and making them better, or that Apple needs to implement others ideas or mimic the over all process. You can't complain about copying and then proclaim that there needs to be copying.

I for one am all about copying and competition because as a consumer that forces everyone to improve. Healthy competition is a great thing for us all. I want to see WP7, Android and iOS all succeed. I will miss Symbian and don't really care about RIM now... but each OS will have features that makes them better than the other, and they will all have weaknesses.

It's not like Apple has never stolen others ideas. Apple is just as guilty as Samsung.

If you can't see how that's a sad, slavish knock off design then I can't help you. Take a look at one in person, it's frankly embarrassing to sell such a derivative handset design. Perhaps in Korea it's flattery to try to knock off your competitors' designs, but it comes off as desperate and creatively bankrupt to me. A respectable company develops its own designs and wants to stand out, so that when you look at it you either say "WOW what is that!?" or once you've seen it you go "There's that Samsung Galaxy XYZ." That is the way the iPhone 4 was. No one could mistake that for a Samsung phone or any other. These recent Samsung phones are designed to look like the iPhone 3G/3GS. For some reason. Surely even Samsung knows that phone has been outdated for years, so I don't know why they chose this design.