Apple Vs Samsung - TVs and Cookers?

The external enabling function-buttons of the touch-screen smartphone is as simple as a TV or rice cooker. Is there any purpose in debating its 'copyrighted' design? And Samsung has actually built a better phone and smaller tablet: Lighter, speedier and with longer-lasting batts. It is good that judges elsewhere (outside of the US) recognise this. Call it the curse of the 'first-mover'? Hmm...