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FORBES: Samsung vs Apple, The Battle For Design Dominance

We commonly associate extreme secrecy around a product design with Apple, but it now looks to be in vogue with all the major technology companies: just days after Samsung revealed the Galaxy S III's secret sauce, Microsoft has explained to TechRadar that it developed its surprise new Surface tablets under a similarly tight watch.

ENGADGET: Microsoft: Surface was developed in an 'underground bunker' at first, we can play the secrecy game too