Re:This is good... (Score 1)

According to wikipedia, its often argued over who quoted "There's a sucker born every minute". Ain't it the truth. The problem here lies that you are saying a patent like this is a good thing. If apple didn't patent their one button mouse, do you think we would all be using one button mice? Maybe in the beginning, but now we know better. Jobs and Co are greedy. You put the iphone (a good device, not great...could have been great) on a network trying to implement its 3g technology and only give it EDGE capabilities. They crippled it, but why? To save money for the end user? I doubt it. Shelling out a couple bucks more for a phone that already costs hundreds of dollars won't really make someone willing shell out that little bit more think twice. It is corporate America. It is evil. The question is though if they patent their little gestures, will it really matter in the end? Probably not. Why? Because there will be a standard across the board eventually. So let Apple make its little patents and try to hoard all the money they can. In the end, it won't matter. They will eventually run out of ideas to patent and all the suckers will get sucked in by some other big greedy corporation with a hot new product. Apple didn't come up with the iphone becuase they were thinking about the consumer, they came up with the iphone because they had to. Cell phone/music player is the next thing and its here, ipod is on its way out. You'll see, in another few years, they will attempt to wow all you suckers with something brand new and sexy when there are alternatives that can do the same thing waiting right around the corner. The mighty apple is rotten to the core and eventually someone will bite into it and then just toss it in the garbage where it belongs.