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At some stage, it takes huge talent to follow in the footsteps certain pathbreakers. At leasts successfully.

Even if android did nothing but 'copy apple' they created a second player in the space on Apple's level.

If you think this is a trivial task -- look at RIM.

The creation of viable choice and a establishment of business model that hasn't (yet) forced the implosion of the platform, is a huge amount of work even of one were to abstact away any "groundbreaking originality" (whatever that means anyway) in the platform.