A la the RIAA shakedown business model a patent troll tried to extort a bunch of independent developers that had no chance of fighting back. Then Apple (with their well-documented $60 billion of fuck-you money) stepped in and said we've already paid you your protection fee-it transfers to our developers, now please go away before this gets ugly.

I think this is pretty great. (Other than the fact that the current software patent system encourages this sort of thing, natch)