The backlash toward Apple seems silly to me, they're playing the game within the rules that exist. If you're mad that patents consisting of obvious combinations, evolution's, and (ux) optimizations of prior or existing technologies are a thing: rail against that, not against Apple. In the end who really cares if Apple wins or loses their patent dispute, almost undoubtedly eventually a settlement will be reached and t…
You don't get it? So just because something is within the law that makes it ok? Was slavery ok back in the day just because it was legal? What I don't get is how people can justify using this argument.
Patent law is fucked up, so we get mad at Apple.
These two things are not alike, and the latter reaction doesn't really make sense.
I never said anything remotely close to the idea that I think what Apple is doing is OK, rather quite the opposite. But I'm not going to be mad at Apple about it because being mad at Apple accomplishes pretty much literally nothing. Instead I'll direct my frustration at the true cause of the insanity: the inane patent law itself.