Apple Drops 'Thermonuclear' Patent Bombshell.

[jimmy olsen]

They're already waging a scorched earth campaign against Samsung, why would anyone be surprised?

[Syt]

See, what's funny about this is that it's actually plausible.  I wouldn't put it past Apple to pull something like this.

Yeah, it reminds me of the prank, years ago, that Metallica would sue someone for using a sequence of four notes that they was also in one of their songs (that was during the time when they were super-rabidly against pirating and file-sharing).

[DGuller]

Good synopsis, terrible article.  I really hate it when they go through the motions and toss subtleties aside.