Who Cares If Samsung Copied Apple?   But there's actually
another question that I think is much more interesting to the
future of innovation in the technology industry: regardless of
whether the courts say that Samsung copied Apple or not, would
we all be better off if we allowed—even encouraged—companies to
copy one another?  As the Apple-Samsung trial shifts to the
hands of the jury, Harvard Business Review's James Allworth asks
whether we should even prosecute copying in the first place.
But it's what happened next that's really fascinating.  Apple
didn't stop innovating at all. Instead: they came out with the
iMac. Then OS X ("Redmond, start your photocopiers"). Then the
iPod. Then the iPhone. And now, most recently, the iPad. Given
the underlying reason that Apple has been bringing these cases
to court was to enable them to continue to innovate, it's hard
not to ask: if copying stops innovation, why didn't Apple stop
innovating last time they were copied? Being copied didn't stop
or slow their ability