[citation][nom]LuckyDucky7[/nom]@JFo No, you're wrong, I'm sorry to say.You see, the pictures that you so often see are those of what's called the Launcher on both devices.The Tab doesn't display that all the time- in fact, it's a secondary part of the Tab's internal programming (that is, Android). Front and center are the widgets.And I'm sorry, but icons on a desktop should not be patentable. Which is what the Launchers are, be it iOS, webOS, Android, Windows, or Mac OS- there's no way around that.As for Apple, that's the only thing that their machine does- its app launcher is about all the OS actually does (other than settings).Android, on the other hand, has multitudes of things on its home screens- widgets being first and foremost in that line.But Samsung's implementation (as with all Android devices) goes above and beyond that.Unfortunately, no court can see that. Therefore the customer loses, and those who would improve Apple's implementations also do that.You know, I think Apple fears a Microsoft- remember way back when the GUI was developed? Apple took the ideas from Xerox PARC. So did Microsoft. But Microsoft did it better than Apple, and you can see where the Mac is today.But now, Apple has learned to sue everything that could pose a threat to them (not their superiority, because the iPad is not a superior tablet in and of itself). So either a court needs to teach them a lesson that the better product (that is, the Tab) should win, or risk losing innovation.But what I want to see is Windows 8 tablets arrive and I want to see how Apple responds. Since Microsoft also has large legal guns that have shrugged off anti-trust lawsuits in the past, it would be interesting to see them used.[/citation]
@JFO may be wrong.
Yet still you are only half-right.
You are right about widgets, Launcher being not important to many Android users.
But Mac UI is technically not inferior to Windows'. The fact is ... Linux UIs are the far and foremost the most advanced and both (nowadays, not their first couple of years) windows and mac are copying gnome and KDE.
However, Microsoft made better decision with the placement of PC (and Windows) than Apple and Microsoft ruled the PC market.