The smart phone and tablet industry

[Harrison]

It is also really annoying me too. Apple are just being bullies because they have the money to keep attacking anyone who tries to encroach into their market.

Whatever happened to competition and anti-monopoly laws?

I really like the iPad but refuse to buy one because of the way Apple behave, and also the over bearing need for them to have complete control of every aspect of their products. Not just the design of their hardware and os, but also enforcing what they allow their users to actually do with them.

And yes, it is mad that Apple can patent something like touchscreen control. They never invented multi-touch. They bought out a small company that had developed it. And also companies like Microsoft were using touchscreen technologies long before Apple. Look at Windows CE on the HP IPaq. I was using one of those in 2001 long before the iPhone existed. It wasn't a phone, but had pretty much everything else a smartphone can do.

[Tiago]

Everytime i listen to those wars with Apple, i remember that Commodore was very very close in late 70s to aquire Apple.