[cjboco]

> A grid of icons with text underneath is considered ripping off Apple now? Are you serious?

People keep using this same argument, but there's a little more too it than that. For example, if a graphic designer took the Coca-Cola logo and changed it just slightly. By your logic, they are in the clear because it's just "type", it's not like Coca-Cola invented fonts, right?

I think most people agree that there are enough similarities between the phones that it could be confusing, hence Apple is trying to protect it. You don't hear anyone complaining that MS ripped off Apple. MS came up with something that is different. All though it's still just a "grid of icons with text underneath".

[vacri]

A grid of icons with text underneath has been with us since the start of WIMP interfaces, and every OS that has a GUI has displayed this. Comparing it to the static image of a highly-stylised corporate logo is utter nonsense.