According to the IEEE review of portfolios, Apple Has the Most Powerful Patent Portfolio in Consumer Electronics, based on quality, originality, generality, and innovation.
Google, nor samsung are in the top 20.
Just because you don't understand how design patents work, "bullshit" i think you call them, doesn't mean you know what you speak of.
Apple has a very innovative talent of seeing the big-picture and putting together technologies in ways that other people didn't imagine, with a keen eye of how to make it useable to the average person. In so doing they have blazed the trail on many fundamental product categories that spawned whole industries (the personal computer, the GUI computer, the portable music player, the modern smart phone, the tablet, etc). Did they do something that was a category first, or the first use of a technology? Not often, but Apple's ability to synthesizing ideas into a well-honed product is an important type of innovation. It It is not fundamental science, but it is no less important or valuable, and should not be underestimated.
For example, even if multi-touch has been around in labs for 20 years, but nobody could figure out what to do with it. And cell phones had been around for 20 years, but had horrible interfaces and couldn't be used as real web devices. It is no less innovative to bringing together the two, with all the small details of those "bullshit" design patents to make it into a package that really works for an end user. Was it innovative? Based on the fact that *every* phone manufacture is has followed suit with a variation of the iPhone, and that this stuff is hard to do, and google is still struggling 5 years later to make quad-core tablets that are as responsive the to users touch as Apples 1st generation iPhone with 10x less resources. Is it Innovative? You bet cha!
(http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/innovation/apple-has-the-most-powerful-patent-portfolio-in-consumer-electronics)