Not one word, Diogenes. . .
Yes. Odd isn't it? At least from your perspective. My guess is that the author considered Apples achievements more as improvements/variations on a theme rather than groundbreaking developments... which is how I see them.
Apple does good work, but they didn't invent the wheel.
Actually it's not. Look at the title of the article, which is the focus of the article. . . It IS big screen touch surfaces. And Apple has many ground breaking patents, innovations, and developments to its name. YOUR blindness won't allow you to see them.
I've never claimed they have. You've chosen to interpret what Apple has correctly claimed, the spin put on it by anti-Apple critics, and your own bias to claim they have claimed they have invented what they have not claimed.