Apple to Samsung: Sorry we called your iPad copy a copy

Leave it to Apple to transform a court-ordered apology into a rival-skewering piece of advertising. This morning the company complied with a U.K. court mandate that it publicly recant allegations that Samsung copied the design of the iPad for its own Galaxy tablet. But it did so with a statement that is hardly the “public grovel” it complained of to a U.K. appeals court. …