I think Siracusa is exactly right that Jobs has a particularly acute sensitivity to this sort of unfairness. This litigation, perhaps then, isn’t about particular specific patented components, but rather is about the big idea, the general gist and grand ambition of the iPhone as the basic model for how modern mobile devices should be designed and work.
No doubt some of you are nodding your heads and see this as justification for Apple’s suit. But life isn’t fair. Great ideas make the world better. Apple can rightly expect to benefit greatly from the ideas embodied by the iPhone, but they can’t expect to reap all of the benefits from those ideas.
Daring Fireball: This Apple-HTC Patent Thing
John Gruber has put together some nice thoughts on why the Apple suit seems so odd (despite being legally totally run-of-the-mill) and yet so very Apple-like. Once again, the most persuasive vision of a Cuppertinologist seems to be that it is All About Steve.
