The mobile industry has seen extremely intense competition among phone manufacturers over the past years. Each one constantly wants to outdo the rest. Nokia, one of the world’s top mobile phone producers, has models which many believe to be tough challengers to Apple’s iPhone.

As the Nokia and Apple feud progresses, the former has been accused of copying the iPhone’s touch screen feature. Many have been joking about it as the Nokia iPhone, a concept phone, which is yet to appear on the market. YouTube and Flickr has video and images of this unit, and it does look like an iPhone, only with a Nokia logo on it. Because of this, Nokia’s Executive Vice President and General Manager of Multimedia, Anssi Vanjoki responds to Apple’s accusation.

In a conference held in August, Vanjoki openly says, “If there’s something good in the world, we copy it with pride.” The mobile phone industry generally involves stealing others’ ideas, but with the intent to improve on them to make things better for everybody. This in turn provides knowledge that other generations will be working on as well.

Perhaps there are Nokia engineers right now taking apart the iPhone and thinking of ways to execute it better than Apple. Maybe Apple has long been studying Nokia’s design and ideas even before they came up with their singular sensation, the iPhone.

In many critics’ opinions, there is no need to fuss about Nokia remaking the iPhone, or whatever it is they’re planning. This will only mean that Apple will then have to think of a counterattack to that strategy. The world, as the consumer, proceeds to benefit from these innovations. If not for these kinds of competition, we would have been stuck in the Stone Age.

So the next time we see a great idea, we shouldn’t say, “Why didn’t I think of that?” Rather, it would be brighter to say, “I can do better than that.” And so, the phone wars between Nokia, Apple, and all the others on the planet rages on. We can’t is bound to overtake it.