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The Audacity of Copying Well – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

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The Audacity of Copying Well – Stratechery by Ben Thompson Skip to content The Audacity of Copying Well Wednesday, August 3, 2016 One of the more eye-rolling sentiments in tech — thankfully fading — is that every rectangular device with a touchscreen is a rip-off of the iPhone. Well duh! How else would you make a phone post 2007? That’s why I’ve always had more respect for Samsung than most; I wrote in 2013 in an article called Shameless Samsung : Every pre-iPhone phone maker is irrelevant, if they even exist, except for Samsung, who is thriving. 1 Samsung the copycat was sma

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