Impressed is an understatement, but why?

 

Why not?

 

Is Apple going to sue him for patent infringement?

 

100%

 

Well I am assuming that this isn't vanilla Minecraft

 

They could be using their wonderful minds on building something useful, that is useless.

 

perhaps they find it intellectually rewarding? We have no right to tell someone how they should be spending their time

 

Obviously not, I'm just curious as to why? It must have taken them months to do it!

 

Little misleading, he didn't do any of it "in" minecraft its a java plugin/addon he made for the game that controls everything and makes it appear to function like an iphone.

Still it was done pretty good.

 

Obviously because they have too much free time.