Why Bother Changing Anything?

"The LG Arena KM900, slated for a Europe release this March, is about as close as you can get to the iPhone without releasing a straight-up clone. Actually, scratch that. The KM900 is just as convincing as most iPhone clones out there. Even the icons, like those for music, calling, the calendar, calculator and settings are frighteningly close to Apple design."

The image above was posted on Gizmodo and I have to say were I the average John Q. Citizen who didn't really know much better, I would definitely say that was an iPhone I was looking at.  It's one thing to borrow an innovative design (as Mark from Gizmodo notes, poppy colors and big buttons make great UI sense on a phone) and completely another to just rip one off.  Then again, this is LG we're talking about.  They're not exactly the most innovative company on earth to begin with.