Apple invented the multitouch on a transparent screen. . . and holds the patent on it. . . which is what made the modern smart phones possible. You can make all kinds of excuses you want, Diogenes, but you don't cut it. Apple made it all work. The others did not. If it was so "obvious to you" why are you not the inventor??? Why are you not the CEO of the largest business in the world? Why are you not a multibillionaire? Monday morning inventors are a dime a hundred. . . and critics like you are pathetic. Your question about what purpose there is in a patent is patently absurd. . . and even more pathetic. Read our Constitution. it's in there.
Not what Wiki Says. In fact, it indicates Apple is deliberately misleading people on this point.
If it was so "obvious to you" why are you not the inventor???
Many reasons, not the least of which it was invented before I arrived on the scene.
Why are you not the CEO of the largest business in the world? Why are you not a multibillionaire?
Did the CEO invent it? I would have thought it was some engineer they hired. Is *HE* a multibillionaire? (The actual inventor.) Somehow I doubt it. It seems a lot of people are getting money for work they didn't actually do, which is another problem I have with a lot of intellectual property methodology nowadays.
Everybody is trying to ride on the output of others. Everybody is trying to get their "rent seeking" hooks into anything they can, and then misuse the law to force people to pay them. It's easier to do this when you are wealthy, but it doesn't make it right.