The industry is cheering for Apple in this conflict. Steve Jobs mantra: "Let's focus on delighting customers. If we do that then sales volume and profits will follow automatically." Qualcomm's mantra: "Let's focus on screwing over customers and suing them if they don't comply."

Qualcomm is like a suicide bomber. They're going to go down fighting but they're going to kill themselves in the process.

What a friggin moron. Get Al Franken out of Congress at the first opportunity. He doesn't belong there.

Apple is a company that innovates and brings new technologies to market. Without Apple there would have been no iPads, no iPhones, no iPod Touches, and no MacBook pros. Without Apple, a smartphone would still look like a Blackberry and laptops would look like a cheap plastic Dell.

Google, Microsoft, HP, HTC, Motorola, Dell, Samsung, Nokia, RIM, and the rest of the Android crowd are all imitators. Without Apple's technological leadership they'd be lost and consumers wouldn't have the great products we enjoy today. If you're an Android user who likes the experience, credit Apple. If you're a Blackberry user looking forward to getting a new Playbook, credit Apple. If you're an HP customer yearning for a new Palm based tablet, credit Apple (which is where HP's leader Jon Rubenstein came from). Apple provides best of class products and those products then serve as roadmaps for the industry at large.