Originally Posted by
doomlord52 
Well, of course every company took inspiration from another - that's generally how tech works. There's no truly original idea in the tech industry. But basically all of those images are irrelevant.
As someone else said, that first pic was from a multi-vender store. They probably sold Apple products, so they're gonna have apple icons on there. That's basically selective bias, where in only the information you want to be shown, is shown. I could find some inverse thing were a multi-vendor store had android app icons or google logos near iphones or apple logos.
Simply saying that Samsung ripped off Apple because their box is white is dumb. The box HAD to rectangular, because of the shape of the device (also, its a BOX). It had to be a color as well. The fact that it's a white box has nothing to do with apple. I could find a billion products pre-apple that came in a white box with text on it. Same goes for the presentation. The device is going to be somewhere in the box - usually near the top, so you can quickly see the product after opening the box. My (absolutely ancient) Nokia 6265i (June 2006, iiirc), came in a black box (or white, depending on the color of the phone), and when you opened the box (the lid came off vertically), the phone was presented in the front. That was long before apple started packaging their stuff like that.
Same goes with a cable. USB is a rectangular cable-end, the Zune HD cable is a rectangular cable end, etc. Again, as above, you cant say "wow they ripped off apple because their cable ends with a rectangle". It makes zero sense. The only other choices are shorter or longer rectangles, or circles (which are reserved for media input/output, most of the time). Hence, the cable is going to be rectangular. Then it comes down to number of pins. Each ping is a certain size, and the number of pins and their size is going to dictate the size of the cable end.
The mic thing is so dumb I shouldn't even have to address it. Using a mic to represent a recording device. Who could have thought of that. Its amazing. Geeeee....
The only vaguely acceptable claim in that whole picture is the USB wall adapter, and even then, I'd chalk that up to design requirement rather than idea-copying. The wall sockets in most countries use two or three 'prongs'. North America (that's an NA plug) have two prongs. As a result, the end will likely be square. Just look at any ungrounded appliance cable. Then they need to addapt the power socket to a USB socket. You've now got very, very little choices in shape. A square of minimum size is the logical conclusion. True, they COULD have made a trapezoid, or sphere, but really. Its like saying Corsair copied Antec because both of their top-end cases are big and square-ish.
So no, im not "delusional". I just seem to be able to discern the difference between logic and copying products, which a lot of people dont seem to be able to do.
