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Originally Posted by stustaff
to be fair they did invent it so surely they shouldnt let others have it for free and profit from it should they?
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The issue at hand is not letting other people have it for free. The issue is how should you use the monopoly.
Apple is choosing to go for short-term profit maximization, trying to grab every possible dime from it. That's why external developers are treated so shabbily, and outside standards (such as flash) are tending to be ignored. All to block outside competition and have the users, who want the dominate patented feature, give every penny they have to Apple. They are not worried about extra value added to the system by external development, if it's big enough, they want to subsume it into an Apple product. These are the very type of actions that cause the great anti-trust rebellion of the 1880's-1910's in the US.
On the other hand, if you don't want or need the patented feature, you will have a much cheaper alternative products over time. Whether touch/zoom wins over folding green over time, I can't say. It does for me, already. But I'm a cheapskate...