Apple wins patent on key smartphone feature

[ImaNihilist]

Apple should stick with marketing gadgets to 13 yr olds instead of suing everyone in sight. They started all this how many years ago when people wanted to sell Apple clones? That's when I started using PC's and never looked back. Where did that get them? They have no desktop business. They sell PC's ported to run their OS to people who are willing to pay a premium. That is a niche market at best.

Where did it get them? It got them to be the largest, most influential, technology company in the world. It's true, they have no desktop business—but the desktop business is dead. Home desktops…talk about a niche market at best. That's for old people. What are you, 65? Hell, even old people have iPads now instead.

Notebooks and mobile devices have completely killed the home desktop market, and continue to beat on its dead corpse.

The idea of "the desktop" only exists for gamers and in the enterprise—and even the latter is being challenged with things like PCoIP.