I didn't even do heavy proofreading in this, including the removal of flaws and unambiguity, however they turned out pretty well without it.
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Businesses wanting to compete in the mobile app market are forced to buy Macs in order to compete across the diverse family of mobile devices. Bigger businesses, such as developing teams of well-established companies or ones with bigger budgets, will not hesitate to buy Macs for development – whereas smaller or solo developing groups will not be able to or not have the willingness to buy Macs.
The average person will never have a problem with this, so this Apple can get away with the anti-competition distribution method of their iOS SDK.
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HTC has created Android phones because of which Apple sued HTC for patent infringement. Apple won the case, banning the import of the phones into the US, effective in April. The patent infringed is for the storage of unstructured content (the “contact”) in a document (such as contact data for one person, like e-mail, phone number, address) and its retrieval and parsing of said content into recognizable details. After parsing, the organized data can be used in applications for dialing phone numbers, texting to numbers, e-mailing to the contact, or locating the address of the contact on a map.
The patent is extremely ambiguous; it does not describe any specific file format, only that the patented program looks for the presence of recognizable structures, one that anybody can recognize. The fact that any human can recognize these patterns, and sped up by computing power makes for a poor basis for a patent.
Steve Jobs said in a press release to about the HTC lawsuit: “We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We’ve decided to do something about it. We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours.”
Nothing is more ironic than Steve Jobs, in a quote defending Apple trying to use a patent with non-specific details to shut out competition, stating in the same quote that he thinks competition is healthy.
