Joanna Stern of The Wall Street Journal presented her documentary on the evolution of the iPhone on June 29, 2007, the 15th anniversary of the first model’s release. Among other things, it includes an interview with Greg Joswiak, head of marketing at Apple, who is considered one of the creators of the iPhone. In the film, Joswiak claims that in the early 2010s, Samsung copied the design of the iPhone by installing a larger screen.

In an interview with Apple’s marketing manager, he asked how much Samsung and other Android manufacturers are impacting the display increase on the iPhone. He answered this directly:

They were boring. Because as you know, they stole our technology. They took our innovations that we invented and just set up the screen as much as possible, making a bad copy. So yeah, we weren’t very happy.

When Samsung introduced the 5-inch Galaxy S4 in early 2013, the iPhone 5 had a 4-inch display. Apple Company succumbed to trends and introduced smartphones with enlarged screens only in 2014, showing the iPhone 6 at 4.7 inches and the iPhone 6 Plus at 5.5 inches – as a result, these models were so in demand that they became the bestsellers They became one of the iPhones. In history.

In 2011, Apple sued Samsung for patent infringement – the plaintiff claimed that the South Korean company copied the iPhone design for Galaxy smartphones. Apple won the lawsuit and initially received $1 billion in damages, but the retrial reduced the payment. This lawsuit was settled only in 2018, after which the “apple company” again stated that Samsung crudely copied the appearance of the iPhone.