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...but corporations are people, and people have feelings! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood

I agree with you - but I've read in several places that Apple were ordered to apologise. Their feelings (or not) don't come into it.

[BTW - the linked text kind of implies that they do have feelings; the article comes off as surly, resentful and not a little childish...]

[EDIT: Seems like they were never actually ordered to apologise, only to clarify that Samsung did not, in the judgment of the court, infringe on anything.]

They may not have feelings, but they usually have more tact than this announcement displays.