I mostly agree, but your point is inherently lessening the accusation on Apple's part. As far as mainstream consumer electronic history is concerned, Apple did come up with modern interactions with touchscreen devices. That includes a lock screen with a slider (hell, the LG Vu had an unlock button you had to hold and it was a touchscreen phone after the iPhone), multitouch gestures, a home button, etc. Sure, many of those implementations seem logical now, but Apple was the company that did it first and made people settle in with using a device in that manner, and because of this, they own the patents on it. It's slightly unfair to equate creating modern UX and holding the patents on it to "blue tiles in the basement."
All of that aside though, I agree that this is pointless and can only hurt consumers. The HTC One X seems like a great device and exactly what HTC needs right now.
Yes Apple has created some innovative ideas which have been copied and used by other smartphone manufacturer's.
Of course Apple also copies from android and android app designers.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/burnette/...5-updated/2295?pg=2&tag=content;siu-container
Understand this doesn't bother me, I'm just pointing out that better solutions occur when people are allowed to recognize a good idea and incorporate it into their system.
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YAY - after all the times HTC has being causing trouble for Apple, Apple are getting HTC for something.
Seems like HTC have being causing Apple unnecessary trouble.
Lol WUT?