I was amazed, not sure why I'm so easily amazed, but I was really really taken back by todays news.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2397832,00.asp
It seems like apple have a patent on "data tapping" so when you come across a phone number it becomes underlined, you tap it and can call or email for example. Well, we are all used to that and Apple say it's their idea.
I think this time Apple , you have gone too far. If you want to take down technology other than yours by patenting such things as data tapping then anyone who owns a website with a hyperlink on it is probably violating the same patent.
Technology and ideas can not continue to spawn when stupid patents that are so vague and unrealistic that they will inhibit any tech ideas going forward.
will Apple put a patent on Christmas, I recall Adam and Eve had a wee tussle over one and look what happened out of that.
seriously I think these patents are going way too far