Thanks for the links, simmer2. It's now clear to me that we should turn our ire from Apple to Motorola. Look at what they are claiming to have patents over:
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The technologies that Motorola execs say are theirs involve "wireless communication technologies, such as WCDMA (3G), GPRS, 802.11 and antenna design, and key smartphone technologies including wireless email, proximity sensing, software application management, location-based services and multi-device synchronization."http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20...#ixzz1UdXoVfC6
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Think about it for just a minute about what they're doing...they are trying to gain control of the flow of information. What was once an open source internet will slowly become controlled and closed, and we'll all be paying out our asses for it.
To me this seems like the equivalent of Ford suing Toyota for having too similar a steering wheel, glove box, door handle, and using the same colour. It's absolutely ridiculous that those features are the ones that might pull iPads off the shelf.