One of the great appeals of Apple products is their elegant design. (Elegant enough to entice long-time Segway CTO Doug Field to leave Dean Kamen’s brain trust at Segway and move over to Steve Jobs lair as VP for product design at Apple.) Apple’s designs have such a unique appeal to them that they frequently invite competing manufacturers to imitate Apple’s designs. By now, we’ve lost count how many iPhone knockoffs are on the market already. But if imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Apple should