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by veemjeem 5049 days ago
If you look at the styling of the pull-down notifications on iOS and Android, they actually look different. ICS pull downs looks significantly different than iOS. However, if you google images of samsung galaxy products, you'll see that many of their interfaces are identical.

For example, take a look at the samsung galaxy keyboard, the buttons & layout are identical to the iphone, why would you throw away the Android keyboard and replace it with something that looks identical to the iphone? The galaxy dock connector is also identical to the iphone, so much that one can actually plug the samsung connector into an iphone. Personally, I like the usb connectors better -- they're more versatile and I don't need to carry a bunch of specialized cables around, but samsung would rather copy apple than pick a sane default.