Apple and all your Fanboy ****** can rejoice. You are creating a monopolistic environment and following blindly just like North Korea. I'm sick of your *****ic comments about who is better and who came out with what. All of this is supposed to help us, humans. And being communist about your devices, your software, and your company is not going to help out anyone. Eventually people will see you for the company you really are. Steve Jobs goes down the same year as Kim Jong il? I hope they share a nice glass of "I'm a lil b.i.t.c.h who used people my entire life and my legacy is to try to slow our technological advancement." Kudos dog. I hope the both of you live in everlasting misery.

How the hell do you patent a hyperlink? Apple didn't invent it. Does this mean ANY hyperlink is now a patent of Apple? Come on. This is ridiculous. What did Apple slip under the table to get this stupid, *****ic ruling?

This keeps up, forget having choices, people. If Apple corners the market and forces everyone else out, you won't have a choice.

How many of these same Apple fanboys were so dead-set against Microsoft and wanting them to go down as well and wanted Apple to be the #1? It's amazing how they cheer against the competition, yet when their company does exactly what they are against, they cheer for it. What lemmings.

Hopefully, this can get overturned somewhere because as small and minute as it might seem, it could have serious repercussions in the long run that affect everyone's choices: mainly, reducing them.

I think most of the so called Apple fanboys that post pro Apple messages across the web are in fact Apple employes and web bots that scan the web searching for latest Apple news and where they find one they eagerly post a pro Apple message on that page in order to trick the consumers to buy an Apple toy instead.

Now I may be completely wrong here, as I don't have time or inclination to look up the facts, but hasn't programs such as Skype had the ability to detect phone numbers in text and highlight them with an action for ages? Way before the iphone was invented? How did Apple manage to patent something that was already invented?

Stealing someone elses idea previously implemented only follows the same greedy idiocy also seen in the fact that someone can now obtain a copyright to a musical piece penned in the 1800's. Fairness, integrity, and ethics only seem to appear in the dictionary.

Just another reason to advise against supporting Apple products.

We have seen this happen every now and then, when you want to beat competition you have to find ways of reaching your point!!! Am a staunch HTC fan and i could not, could not swap my HTC with two iphones!!!! Go figure Apple

I'm so glad the lobbyists and politicians got together to "fix" the patent and copyright systems. I do kinda wonder how much money it took to buy the new laws. And how long it took the hand-rubbing lawyers to figure out how to abuse the result.