"Apple cannot poison the air and water in the U.S. to the extent these corporations are doing in China."

You speak in the abstract, but these companies are acting out of experience. If Apple thought they could hire the amount of engineers they needed with the sort of flexibility that they could in China, they'd move in a heartbeat. Apple's strategy isn't to punish the U.S.

"When there are readily available alternatives (such as Corning's Gorilla Glass)"

You missed the part where the question is answered, so I'll reprint it here:

The screen only needs protection if you don't intend on being careful with it. If you don't treat your phone like the $600 device it is, that's what happens.

"Or build factories in the U.S."

"Once agin I dont argue your point that it is for a different method.. just that it is for auto detection.."

"Yes yes I am aware that it coud well be for a different method of doing it.. but that far from your original arsehole smack down of "ffuuuuuuuu IZ not automatic detection!!!""

"I hope this is not a sexual thing."

"And correct me if Im wrong but if was going to automatically discover nearby devices the that implies wireless control."

Thank you. There's literally nothing like this on the market right now.

"I say the less holes the better."

This is for future devices, so it's also worth noting that, as is Apple's want, their future iOS devices probably won't be able to fit in that dock anyway, since they change the form-factor so often.

I think you missed the point.

"The manufacturing costs of cars: hybrid, traditional, electric, or flex-fuel - isn't the case here. It's that there's a consumer base *willing* to spend extra to *think* they're making a difference. In other words, there's profit to be made by attempting to do good."

"They aren't interested in producing an iPad clone because nobody likes Apples idea of policing their OS."

I mean, honestly? That's not bad. Maybe a little less bezel.

I think the main problem for them right now is that they aren't interested in producing an iPad clone. I think when he talks about a "spiritual sibling to the Lumia," he's talking, in part, about the form factor. They don't want to make a tablet that doesn't look like it was actually designed by them. I give Nokia a…

The patent application is not for a touchscreen universal remote. It is for a specific "apparatus" and a specific "method" to "facilitate universal remote control." The problem is that you don't quite understand what patents actually are. Aside from "cornerstone inventions," patents cover methods of application—a…

The patent isn't for "auto discovery" or "wireless control."