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The way patent law works is that you submit your patent request for as broad a category of products, then rework it until you get to the broadest patent that the patent office accepts.
The fact that Apple tried to patent that isn't surprising or even anything that any other company wouldn't try to get away with. You pretty much have to, in fact, to have a business. What's surprising and disgusting is that the patent office accepted that as a valid thing to patent.
This is part of the growing problem with technology outpacing the ability for laymen to base legal and political judgement on, even though it's becoming increasingly necessary for those legal and political judgements to be made with wisdom and knowledge that our infrastructure is not equipped to provide.
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