As evidenced by the patent claims already fought and lost, they might prevail on a little but not I don't think it will be much in the end. It's not really some

As evidenced by the patent claims already fought and lost, they might prevail on a little but not I don't think it will be much in the end. It's not really some tiny android using brands they need to sink but rather Samsung, HTC and other giants. Even if they prevail in 1 or 2 of the 10 or so claims they are making these guys will be able to eat up the costs (and one or two might be able to force a cross-licencing with their own patents). So in the end, nothing is going to stop the current trajectories where Apple will be relegated to fighting with second place in the market with Microsoft. To my mind this is as it should be. Smartphones can only be a screen 3 to 6 inches in a thin form with a slightly modified desktop metaphor (icons on a background), and are based on a wide infrastructure that is not Apple owned. Free code initially (BSD, Linux and Webkit). SSD research, gorilla glass, AMOLED, camera chip manufacturers and ARM CPUs. Apple is more or less just another PC company, and smartphones are now pretty much just small PCs. Apple has a good music and app market which they can leverage to make sure they have a larger slice of the phone market than on the PC market, but it's not manifest destiny that they should own it. They also have to consider the public relations costs compared to prevailing in a few corner patent cases and looking (rightly so) like sore losers who don't want any competition. Apple should stop whinging and fire 80% of the legal department and use the money to acquire another company like the one that produced Siri. Then again, perhaps the PR department is behind this to create another "stabbed in the back" mythology, like their dubious claims to stratospheric innovation on the desktop.