Creative being ambitious and ambiguous

Creative is claiming to be the first flash memory-based audio player manufacturer in France. They even made it official in an advertisement published in a free newspaper distributed in Paris "A nous Paris".

We do not want to question this claim. It can be true, but it will change since the huge additional tax that was applied on the iPod nano till December 1st has been changed.
Creative has been granted for their audio player interface that is looking so much as the one used in iPods (Apple forgot to patent it earlier on...).
We have the feeling that Creative is releasing new mobile audio player almost identical to iPod models on purpose: as proven by the last Zen vision model:

We think that taking into account their patent for the interface, they are copying iPod models as close as possible till the time apple will react and sue them. Creative would then counter-attack with its patent on the interface.
Creative is probably trying this maneuver to get a bigger piece of the mobile audio player market, or maybe to get extra money via agreement or royalties...