Well, when you put it that way... I can see how Apple would want to avoid getting dominated like they did in the smart phone market. After all, their smart phone sales are borderline sad and scarcely even making them any money.

No, that's really not it. Here's some proof (both these links are from sites that are NOT dedicated to covering Apple... I thought a link to AppleInsider or similar might be seen as a biased article, so I'm going with AllThingsD and ReadWriteWeb):

Seriously. If you're getting paid to write, even for a (sometimes) trashy blog, you need to know better than to use a word like "anyways".

Well, all your examples are of gestures performed on a human body, not as part of a user interface that is the core of a product. As a company develops new ways to interact with a device, those interaction methods have the potential to become a defining feature of said device. Patenting the gestures used is a way of…

Can I be pedantic with you for a moment? This kills me every time I see it... It's "have," not "of." I know it sounds like "of" but people are not saying "They should of done this...", they're saying "They should've done this..." (Should've being a contraction of "should have").

Yes. But how long are THOSE going to be around?

I love my iPad 2, I really do. I am an Apple fanboy through and through. And all I have to say to this is: Ho-leee SHIT.

Yeah, but the first three of this season are "Chuck vs the Zoom" (Morgans's term for an intersect Flash), "Chuck vs the Bearded Bandit" (Which Morgan calls himself in the episode) and "Chuck vs the frosted tips" (a reference to Morgans stupid hair in that episode).

Has anyone else noticed that, so far, every episode of Chuck this season has had a title that essentially translates to "Chuck vs. Morgan"?

Yes, it's very cool. Unless said chalk festival is going on 500 feet from your house and you can't fucking get out of your neighborhood because everyone is goddamn cruising the area looking for parking spots!

Wow... I think this "troll" hat is yours, sport.

I use only one app to keep my computer healthy. It's called "OS X."

I think Cook is making a mistake commenting on someone else's unreleased product. Steve Jobs almost never did that. These kinds of comments have a way of coming back and making you look like an incompetent CEO, totally out of touch with the tech world. Just ask Steve Ballmer.

If you think Apple has gotten "lucky" a few times, then you must not have been paying attention. Like them or not, they got there through a deliberate strategy focused on making products and services that made things easy on the consumer. With the MP3 players, they aimed to make buying music online easier than…

I can buy 16 Pintos for the price of 1 Toyota Prius.

Not on the face of it, it doesn't seem to be... but if you remember the comments here when it was announced... Everyone was SHOCKED! SHOCKED, I tell you, That the screen was 4:3 and that the bezel was so big.

I just got done replying to comments on another article, in which I defended Apple's litigation against Samsung.

I think it would be hard to argue that the iPad, a 4:3 tablet with a UI based on the iPhone (which came out in 2007) was a ripoff of a device started in 2008, with a desktop-OS based UI and a 16:9 form factor.

Conquering that sameness is how Apple came back from the brink of Bankruptcy in the late 90s. At the time, your argument could have easily applied to every personal computer on the market, Apple's included. That's why they made the first iMac: to have a unique computer that distinguished itself from the competition.…

I say Stephen Moyer is Roland.