I went nude for years until I got a Book Book for christmas, now it's not for protection or decoration or anything, it's just cause I don't have to carry a wallet now.

It's kind of silly to think this is something that only happens at Apple.

The NFL has had an archaic view on copyright for years.

It may simply be that the recent attention given the patents due to the lawsuits caused them to come under closer scrutiny, which caused them to find prior art, or something similar, to invalidate them.

Well, your first mistake is comparing it to Starbuck's and Peet's.

Also, Jobs' ultimate goal was to crush Android, because he viewed it as a ripoff, but the HTC part was just a battle, not the war. The goal of the HTC lawsuit was to top the single part they saw that infringed. Through these lawsuits Apple hopes to force Android to change to where it's not longer a rip off. That's a…

Yeah, fuck them, because without them your precious Android would be a Blackberry knockoff instead of an Apple one.

Yes, that is the ONLY thing that Apple is going to court for...

And yet Mac market shares continue to grow even in a stagnating PC sales market.

That's more likely an issue of licensing. Those companies have most likely licensed those technologies for use in their products. HTC, Samsung, etc. have not licensed the Apple technology that is being used in these cases.

With regards to the HTC lawsuit, I wouldn't say they got jack squat, they did get HTC to implement the change, which was, really, their ultimate goal. Making the other company stop copying what they do. That's arguably priceless. One has to wonder, if the change was so easy for HTC to make, why did they need to do it…

Programming on the iPad is easy. There are tons of apps for that, at least the writing code part. Compiling would still be left to desktop solutions as far as I know.

Hey, to each their own. Right now, none of the capacitive styluses, or the screen, really, are accurate enough for me to consider doing any real work with, though there are a couple of kickstarter projects looking to change that. As it is, it's like trying to draw fine details with a 75px brush. That's not the fault…

More often than not they seem to act the opposite of the government because that's what is most sensationalist, or just because it what's opposite. Very rarely do their actions seem to be much more than vandalism. They are getting harder and harder to take seriously.

Hooray for idiotic, childish, mob rule.

Design work on an ipad? Quick wireframe sketches and quick notes, maybe, but not any actual work.

What Apple developed is better than anything on the epub horizon right now. They simply weren't content with what was currently available in the format. Given that there is an epub format already out that allows for some interactive functionality (version 3), and is supported on exactly 0 devices, I'm understanding of…

You being the most amazingly wrong of all.

It's right at the top of the license agreement:

If you want to get paid for the iBooks version, yes. The "Work" (notice the capital 'W') is a defined term within the agreement, not a general reference to the work as a whole. The "Work" as defined in the agreement is the output of the program, not the content you put in. I am absolutely astounded at how reckless…