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Originally Posted by holymadness
The recommendation of every direction for improvement save three is to copy the iPhone's features. The only exceptions are slides 11, 27, and 58. That's 97.7%. There is really nothing else to say. Amusingly, there are even comparisons where Samsung's UI arguably has certain advantages over iOS', such as 8, 16, 32, and 43, yet the recommendation is still to copy Apple.
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Nonsense. Take the first 10:
1) A recommendation to support landscape mode (which, by the way, is a basic function that Sony/Nokia hold the patent for).
2) Make the daily schedule display area larger to make text
more legible
3) Increase size of type on dial screen to make it
more legible
4) Make the Hold button end a call.
5)
Correct an error in existing UI so that duplicate icons can't appear.
6)
Correct an error in existing UI where keyboard overlaps text fields.
7) Better indicate the status of a loading screen by placing the word "loading" in the middle of the screen (a
common-sense functional improvement)
8)
Remove clutter on results page by giving option to easily delete unnecessary search results
9)
Remove clutter on certain search result screens by removing unnecessary icons.
10) Give the weather app the option to add other countries
Correcting UI errors, improving legibility and status indicators, and streamlining screens by clearing off clutter can hardly be considered "copying" an iPhone UI feature. So basically you're left with 3 items out of the first 10 at most that can be considered a recommendation to duplicate an iPhone UI feature. A 30% rate at best based on this sampling. That's way off your original statement that there were "recommendations to copy almost every UI element." Still, a mischaracterization.
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Slide 126 is particularly amusing, as it contains two recommendations to copy iOS icons followed by one to "remove a feeling that iPhone's menu icons are copied by differentiating design." 
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You do understand that 3 different design elements are being talked about here, don't you? So there is no contradiction. And, in fact, the third recommendation to differ the design actually goes toward Samsung's favor, showing more explicitly than anything else their true intent with this whole exercise.
--Pat