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Originally Posted by PatNY
Nonsense. Take the first 10:
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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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You haven't contradicted anything I've written, you've just rephrased the directions for improvement. It remains that they are instructions to copy the iPhone's implementation of each feature.
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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. 
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Absolutely. It shows they were worried about imitating Apple too closely and that while copying the elements that lend iOS icons a "luxurious" and "soft and comfortable" feel, they would need to differentiate them otherwise to avoid being accused of theft.
Ironically, this last recommendation was ignored, as Samsung more closely imitated iOS icons over time.
For instance, the S1 icon for the phone app on the S1 is a dialpad; in later models, a phone handset, nearly identical to Apple's. The contacts icon on the S1 is a phone handset; in later models, a book adorned with a silhouette of a man's head and shoulders, nearly identical to the iOS contacts app.
