They are similar in that they both are big touchscreens with no physical keyboard. Apple did not invent that by any means. That is also a shot of the Android App Drawer and not an actual homescreen. Most Android homescreens I've seen have a few widgets on them and do not look anything like a big grid of app icons like the iPhone. Also, that "original" Android phone design you point out looks a hell of a lot like a Blackberry. Android must have blatantly copied RIM by your logic.

turtles all the way down, my friend: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YgpHa1oeHME/TTxZAZWLaxI/AAAAAAAAC_...

Yeah, point to Palm -- a company built by ex-Apple people that produced a lower-cost Newton clone.