I can't answer about the intent of the person you responded to, but my reading was that they were commenting on Apple's history of patent lawsuits, both as a defendant and a plaintiff. Particularly the prolonged IP slapfights between Apple and pretty much every other mobile device company, aka the Smartphone Patent Wars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone_patent_wars

> Are you intimating Apple has been litigious with patents? Or just saying you have no sympathy for companies with lots of money?

This is a false dichotomy. Apple can be evil, and deserve to have bad things happen to it, without performing its evil through the medium of patent lawsuits.

Two words: "rounded corners"

When smartphones became ubiquitous they patented multi-touch, meaning those of us with early android phones had to spend hours hacking the capability into out devices.Pretty sure the original XDA threads are still up.

Then there was the previously mentioned rounded corners etc.

This is all the end result of allowing businesses to perform regulatory capture.

'Bout time it bit apple in the ass

We live in a world where companies want us beholden to them and not the other way around.