I think everyone copies/borrows ideas from everyone else. Of course there have to be some limits on it, but it seems like Apple is going overboard with all these suits. Here is an article about how the iphone design was just a copy of a sony phone. The funniest part of the article is this:
http://www.dailytech.com/Samsung+Apples+iPhone+Started+as+Sony+Ripoff/article25277.htm
I don't really know what to make of all the suits. I don't put too much stock in Apples claims against Samsung and everyone else. And I don't really care that Apple wasn't the first to think of a smart phone. I've never owned an iPhone, but I appreciate that it has pushed the other manufacturers and we can now choose from iOS, Android and Windows (and have the option of an iPhone, Galaxy, Note, HTC One, Nexus, Nokia and on and on and on).