Agreed. Remember that that Sendai earthquake and subsequent tsunami killed tens of thousands of people, wiped out entire towns and cities, caused hundreds of billions in damage, as well as directly caused the Fukushima disaster. So if OP wants to sound warnings about the life threatening dangers of something, it should be... natural disasters.

Samsung. Nokia. Motorola and many other companies have been making cell phones for decades before Apple. they have agreed over the years to FRAND agreements in base cellular technologies. if all Apple has are fairly useless patents on rounded corners then they don't have the barter currency to play and instead will have buy in with real money.