[X-Istence]

I wouldn't necessarily say that Apple doesn't have the patent pool for mobile devices (yes, the smart phone sector included) with Apple doing a lot of innovation in the form of multitouch, OS UI design, usability and a whole other range of other things.

Dismissing Apple outright is definitely the wrong thing to do.

[teyc]

I'm sorry, I should have said "patent barriers" instead. Apple is faced with the necessity of cross licensing their patents with their competitors in order to continue developing smartphones. I don't think Apple will be able to aggressively use their patents to prevent MS, HP, etc from copying.