Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus Copied IPhone Feature, Apple Says

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Samsung Electronics Co., sought to steal market share by selling a Galaxy Nexus phone that copies a feature that makes the iPhone’s Siri virtual personal assistant so compelling, Apple Inc. told a U.S. appeals court.

“This was the beat-Apple strategy,” Apple lawyer Mark Perry of Gibson Dunn, said yesterday in arguments before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington. “This was the top of the line, Cadillac phone they trotted out to compete with the iPhone.”