@zepfhyr  Let me say this once more, I do not hate Apple.  My point is and will always be, the patents they hold they did not create did not originate a single one of them.  Yet you people think they own everything in the computing world.  Point is, Samsung is just as big as Apple, if they pulled out it wouldn't hurt them as much as  you'd think because Apple is not their only customer.
 
As for Android's UI not being customizable unless you root it, then you haven't tried Apex, Launcher Pro, ADW, TSF Shell, Nova and several other Home Screen Managers that allow you to completely change the look and feel of the OS over that which comes stock on the systems.  I have my GSIII which is not rooted at all and will never be.  I had an Evo4G that I did in fact root and had it that way from just six months out of the box and I had bought it when it first came out.  That was my first smartphone and I had looked at the iPhone at the start of it.  So yes, I do know quite a bit about the rooting process and it sucks for some models and easy as can be on others.
 
Personally I feel you shouldn't have to root to be able to change the look and feel of things.  As for my Rampage thing, I do not hate Apple.  It's more likely the users I tend to get disgruntled at because they're worse than bible thumping evangelist on a holiday when they start in on things.  Trust me I have had to deal with them where I worked, because according to them unless I used an Apple/Mac I am not a graphics artist.  Needless to say my work that was predominately displayed as desktop wallpaper across every Mac the next morning disproved that.  Though I did upset the Mac Hardware Rep quite a bit over that one ( This was back in 98 now mind you ).
 
I do use Macs now and then, as I go from place to place working for different people as a Photographer as well as a Designer.  Right now I'm on a MacBook Pro ( Which this one is less than desirable let me say, it's old and cannot even update to the latest version of Snow Leopard ).  I've worked on a iMac 27" and as well own a 9600 series that actually still runs with OS8 on it.
 
All of that aside, I've sat and watched and read for the last two decades of the Apple users and so called articles.  It's always been Apple against the world it seems. Don't get me wrong I detest a lot of the things Microsoft and others have done.  If I could get everything I like software-wise to run on Linux, that's exactly where I'd be.  On a PC that I build and using NO ONE's stupid OS that is restrictive.  I have issues left and right about Microsoft, but that's not who we're talkind about here.
 
And yes all I have to go on is what is posted on several of the mainstream sites I go to.  I'm not involved in the legal battle itself, so I'm definitely not going to waste my time digging through all of it to find out every single detail.  I actually don't really care to that point, I just would like to see Apple and Samsung as well as any other Patent happy lawsuit company, stop the nonsense and get back to work.
 
Lets face it, the iPhone has not dramatically changed and isn't going to any time soon as it appears.  Yeah you've gotten a few minor advancements but nothing major.  This is why a lot of people do leave the iPhone.  They tend to get tired of it, the only ones who truly stick to it no matter what are those that are happy with that and don't need, want or care to own anything else.  Or just flat love Apple that much that they wont betray their brand.  Okay, I'm fine with that, because that is -your- choice as a consumer to do so.
 
But when I look at my brothers iPhone and trust me, he and I compare it with my GSIII all the time, we can't agree at any point it was copied exactly from anything the iPhone has.  Not even with TouchWiz active ( Which I hate.... grrrrrr ).  If there is any companies at the moment that should be butt hurt so to speak, in this industry.  It's RIM and Microsoft, they are the bottom end of it all and I do not see them recovering any time soon.  Microsoft might get better before RIM, but the last Blackberry I owned physically has fallen apart and it hasn't even been in use for at least a good three years.  It just up and fell to pieces literally.  So I question their quality anymore.
 
And by the way, Kersten, if you doubt the rest of what I said?  That's quite alright by me.  I don't post these just to flex my ego or any other reason just that I disagree with someone and or want to have a decent conversation as apposed to the constant name calling and flame wars that people do on sites such as this and others.  I for one welcome anyone to challenge anything I post.  If I'm wrong?  I'll look and find out and I'll be the first one to admit to it as well.  I'm man enough to stand before people and admit that I've been wrong before, I'm human, so I claim nothing of perfection.