With Apple's bank I don't think this is just about money. Since the beginning of these lawsuits I felt Jobs was personally offended. This may be because he felt backstabbed by Google or that OEM's were copying his creations at a faster rate than he could innovate.

Regarding the article, I couldn't less what goes on between these companies. I only care about major court decisions. What I'm more interested in is the lawsuit regarding Motorola and Apple's multitouch patents.

I have severe difficulty with the idea that's actually what's happening here, the iphone was nothing new when it came out and the good parts of it were assimilated into pretty much everything after it, and the better phones that came out after that point continued to beat the iphone in the feature and performance war generally speaking, it seems to me that apple got annoyed that the usability improvements that they made ended up being so trivial in the grand scheme of things and were/are unable to compete with the pace of evolution in the marketplace so wanted to try and force a result in the courtroom.

For this, I think they deserve what they're getting here.