I don’t care much about the patent war going on at the moment, but here is something to keep in mind about apple…
They have always been about taking control away from users. This was obvious in the early days with them not allowing upgrades and things, and it is even more obvious now days with all their “package” and “cloud” ideas.
If people keep buying in to apple (or google), we will end up having the internet as we know it taken away from us. It is not a conspiracy, just a simple fact.
If you want to end up paying $39.99 a month for “standard internet package”, that comes with youtube facebook and twitter included, but other sites cost more, and you connect to it all via your no privacy, hard-drive-less, little cloud gadget, then keep buying in to apple.
I would recommend everyone start shifting over to linux, specially that microsoft have now decided to make windows 8 a piece of crap and start going down the same line as apple.
‘They’ have done it to us with radio and tv, now they want to do it with the internet and computing.
Stop buying in to apple and microsoft, stop buying in to consoles and mobiles, and bring it back to good solid computers that have privacy and control.
They will make it sound better and better at each stage, but they will fuck you a little bit each time along the way, until you are left with nothing. They will start to bring out 1 gig a second connections, and people will love them, but they will sneak in a few more cloud things along the way, and after a few steps there will be nothing of any value left.
As for why apply won the law suit, they more than likely won fare and square, they probably have loads of other patents on loads of things, and after a boring debate they won. They are still only interested in fucking us though.