No financial incentive other than, you know, a need to compete in order to sell their product? There are many ways to compete and sell products. Investing as m

No financial incentive other than, you know, a need to compete in order to sell their product? There are many ways to compete and sell products. Investing as much money as Apple does into R&D is only financially reasonable with government guaranteed monopolies in place. Do you seriously have any doubt that Apple would spend less money on R&D if they weren't able to patent their discoveries? Would any of their products be possible without such extensive R&D spending?