Guys, seriously. Can we stop with the bickering? Who ripped off who isn't the discussion.
Products shape the market research of other companies. CEOs lie to protect their products. Marketing lies to differentiate themselves from their competitors. The greatest progress in technology, whether it be the cell phone, the space race, or the sequencing of the human genome, occurs through (at best) collaboration or (at worst) cheating. If Apple didn't have Android, it would still be the garbage iPhone 3G. If Android didn't have iOS, it would look like a Blackberry.
So can we knock it off on this stupid discussion and agree that the tech industry is great because competition improves the environment?