[oemera]

It's not that bad for Apple cause if you copy Apple you will never be better than Apple itself. Think about it. You can't win Apples own game. You could win if you would come up with something better BUT if everybody is busy copying who will do exactly that? Don't get me wrong I'm not talking about hardware specs.

It is bad for everybody because a) if this trend goes on there will be no "different" products anymore and everything will at some point look like it comes from Apple and b) there will be no competition at all. Competition is good for a industry. Even Apple needs some competition to get better and better.

[esolyt]

HP sells better hardware for less price than Apple. Their only problem was design and now they have solved it by copying Apple. I was looking for an all-in-one computer to buy and now that HP computers have both great design and great specs, I will probably buy them. I am no longer in a trade-off between ugly design and worse specs for my money.