Samsung’s new gear shamelessly copyies Apple, and that’s okay

It’s no surprise that Samsung’s latest Unpacked event in Paris contained a few products “inspired” by Apple. Samsung has been imitating Apple for well over a decade, copying key features and putting just enough of a spin on them to maintain plausible deniability. Apple might disagree on that last point, naturally — between 2011 and 2018 the two companies were embroiled in dozens of lawsuits, only to settle out of court and effectively resume the status quo.