[Swordmaker]

Not a surprise. If they anything that others can agree on, design interface is a huge strngth they have nailed and have for decades.<
Like it or not, and I have never liked it.

Every company that designs any compnsumer product of any kind uses design patents and copyright to protect the look and feel of their products from knock off artists and frauds. The importation and sale of counterfeit products is an over $100 Billion drain on our economy. . . and includes things such as counterfeit aircraft parts, which have resulted in plane crashes; counterfeit prescription drugs that have no active ingredients that look exactly like the genuine product that have killed patients! You think it's just nothing???

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

counterfeit aircraft parts, which have resulted in plane crashes; counterfeit prescription drugs that have no active ingredients

Much of which is produced in communist china, which you and Apple warmly support.