In reply to Peter Lin-Chee.

Since you have spent the effort to respond I'll give you this. Comments are just comments and every article on the internet is some percentage opinion. While I did author the article you are taking exception to I certainly am not going through an entire approval process in the comments. I can understand your gripe concerning the copyright infringement lawsuit against Microsoft being just before Steve returned. I suppose despite the example I gave you of THE famous "copyright infringement" lawsuit that ended up denying Apple's claim that they could "patent" GUI elements you have a right to your point regardless of the prime example of copyright and patent being interchanged in the official verbiage. I suppose you are probably not the only person that believes that Apple's iOS gives them the right to blatantly copy hardware designs and then cry foul at basically everyone else in the business. You can even believe that iOS is actually superior but that is your opinion. The point of the original article was that Apple lives in a glass house and throws stones. In other words they are in the same boat as everyone else. There are patents all over the place and even if they just break even in their litigation their claim that they are victims is moot. The 50/50, hit or miss nature of their litigation attempts attests to the lottery that they play and the fact that for every violation they perceive they also commit one. The whole point that you have failed to grasp because you believe that copying the "outside" is ok so long as they make their own "inside" is that they are living in a glass house.

Finally, in more current news they are losing the reality distortion field now that they have lost Steve. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_distortion_field) ... So their time is quickly becoming history, and when it becomes evident they will be more desperate, and likely only overreach further for a legal edge when their innovative edge is lacking. Steve's claims that they were being robbed of ideas was just another part of the RDF, nothing more, I stand by the original point.