[rustynails]

I'd refute that Apple are the first to invent most things. They rehash someone else's ideas (shoulders of giants stuff). Your attitude is that first to market has a monopoly, which hurts society and offends me. Algorithms can be justified being protected, but not trivialities (eg. Beveled edges, scrolling lists). I posted earlier about knight Ridder v/s iPad (VERY similar looking devices, where Apple copied). I'm ok with that because the elements copied were simple, and frankly the best for their application at this time given technology. You've either taken Ives out of context or he was wrong.