What is to stop someone buying the product online through alternate suppliers? This argument doesn't hold...

Mind you, the potential of a multi-national like Apple, with products that are desired by a large populace, could make some wake-up & scream about not being able to get counter purchases. They could still buy them via the Internet so they wouldn't really lose that much market share. They'd lose initially because of religious grounds & rejection of products by a minority who believe they have no right to interfere but most countries outside US have a majority of Android phones anyway. The US is the only major country where iPhone leads sales. In most countries Samsung leads sales itself let alone Android phones across the board...

You may be correct about the global HQ but no-one believes Apple is anything but American. Silliest comment yet...

On the same hand, whilst Google's focus makes you the "product" as you call it, it's a blind product focus, or a grouping. You pick the group, Google places the advertisement unless you specifically garner a prime commodity that uses Google advertising. The advertisers only choose the select group, not an individual as such which basically makes your comment fallacious. The advertiser has no idea who you are. I doubt anyone at Google actually knows who "you" are. The software picks your preferences based upon the things you specifically choose for yourself & also on the pages you select, probably with ratings on how much you choose those pages. That said no-one within Google has access to your private information in the way that say Mark "Facebook" Zuckerberg has...

...In doing so it was a just reward. Unfortunately he didn't take Apple with him when he died...

How does one patent something after the door was opened & everyone is already using it? What a load of tripe. The Patent office is patently full of fools...

We've done it first so it must be better & we must be better at this so here you go & something else that you really need that you never had before. Did that sound insincere? I apologise if it did. I meant it to sound completely sarcastic & this ridiculous cloud-based anything can go waft itself somewhere else. I just don't get trusting my data with any large corporation, especially not Apple definitely not Microsoft not even Google, even if they've shown themselves a little more reliable for that matter...

Here, take this back. We know databases & can't understand why anyone would want to work on anything else, especially this complex. Of course you'll have to pay for your Java subscription but like all Oracle subscriptions it's the best value for money! Arseholes...

Most troll attempts that go to court actually fail, from memory it's about 12% success rate. If it's fought & lost it would mean that any other company that may be paying for those patents will stop paying (precedent created) & then the suing company loses financial base & ends up looking like a bad investment. Let's hope this happens to Apple, Oracle & Microsoft...

That's a shot across M$s bow, they wouldn't like that

I think the number of failed lawsuits protecting non-developed patents is around 89% & with a few more of these tripe patents about what a thought thought, should result in a mire of horse-shit

This sounds great but if you have the choice of using an OS for nothing on your phone & it has been proven to work versus one which is not guaranteed by the company (M$) & costs you money, then why would you join. M$, the mother of all useless things...

What an unscrupulously, selfish, mongrel dog. True to monkey-boys idiocy, this a-hole continues to claw his way under the snake's belly into the scum-mire pits of diarrhoea & snot. What's more I don't like him either.

You mentioned chiropractors. As a worker within the normal medical world I have seen first hand the screw-ups performed on patients by "spinal surgeons". In general these doctors have little to no understanding of the damage they are doing to the back as a whole & I wouldn't trust them operating on a rat. I'd rather see a chiro who has more training & isn't about to put a hole in my spine. The reason I can walk is a chiro, not a surgeon.

"Truth is absolute" only from a relative standpoint. What is truth to you within your current knowledge is not necessarily truth to another in theirs & you may find out that many laws of nature have no relevance in another time nor another universe.