Except our patent system is so screwed up that may not be the case. For example, if you wanted to stop such idiotic policies being placed on users of any devic

Except our patent system is so screwed up that may not be the case. For example, if you wanted to stop such idiotic policies being placed on users of any devices getting patent on doing it and then charging those that want to do it $500 million can prevent it from being done (for a few years anyway). I am not saying that is Apple's thinking, I am just saying our patent system is so messed up that rich companies can spend a great deal to create tons of patents for things they have no interest in today because of the incentives in the broken system we have now.