I think Apple has been forced to patent everything they can: Nokia sued Apple for e.g. "using positioning data in applications". If Apple did not create a huge

I think Apple has been forced to patent everything they can: Nokia sued Apple for e.g. "using positioning data in applications". If Apple did not create a huge portfolio of patents, then Apple would very vulnerable from attacks from Nokia et.al. Patents are the business equivalent of the cold wars nuclear weapon: we have peace because if you bomb us, then we will make sure that you are completely bombed too: The thought was to keep peace by having lots of weapons and mutually behaving like no weapons existed at all. In the end, it was all just wasted money. http://www.nokia.com/press/press-releases/showpressrelease?newsid=1413195 http://www.nokia.com/press/press-releases/showpressrelease?n...