I see you are grieving, and I hurt with you, my brother.
Just, er, don't tell any relatives that you equate them emotionally with a stripper-loving redneck in a canceled video game.
OK, let's address this calmly. Who has to be tortured to make things right here?
the iphone is a toy, not a business tool.
Toy?!
I suppose you think designer clothes, plucked eyebrows and exposed midriffs aren't business tools, too.
Today, there exists a great untapped opportunity that, for mysterious reasons, is still awaiting those pioneers who will man its papery frontiers: I refer, of course, to patenting ideas that do not nor ever shall exist. This area has been called "the ultimate white space."
I do not mean ideas that should not exist -- the so-called Cthulhu Codex (see Cox, J., Von Wolfgut, T., "The Patent Out Of Time," Journal of Patents, Vol. 27, No. 4).
No, far sexier and lucrative are those patents that haven't been devised yet because the ideas at their root are in a highly theoretical state of pre-existence.
Exploiting these synaptic absences is a vast project going forward. Moreover, it is timely. As the American economy reels from the devastating evaporation of fictitious wealth on Wall Street, new imaginary sources of wealth generation are clearly needed if our economy is to return to a robust delusional grandeur.
It is unknown exactly how much wealth can be derived from ideas that do not exist, but it is believed the sum is nearly incalculable, or, alternatively, "huge."
A list is only as strong as its weakest link. -- Don Knuth