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Apple™s patent application for a travel app is a direct copy, down to the text and the positions of the icons, of an existing third-party app thats been available on the App Store for years.

Rest of the blog post here: http://venomousporridge.com/post/908986088/whereto-patent ( Not written by myself).

In short when Application store becomes manditory, and users cannon install applications without it its a bad thing. And yes Microsoft is doing this with Windows Mobile 7, so im sticking with my 6.5 phone untill they get their act together ( Also no multi threading on Windows mobile 7 unless you have some spesial access).
I personaly think they will change it for the windows Mobile 7 phones, as they start to migrate their Corporate customers.