Hehe, it seems Apple may actually be the owners of the original touch screen phone concept:



This concept phone dates to around 1983, although it never made it to the shelves of shops.

As for the original post comments, meh - I can't really be bothered. I don't hate Apple - I just dislike the manner in which they operate as a company. I don't much like the way Nokia operate that said, but at least I'm not as risk of this just for wanting to fiddle with my hardware's capabilities:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/0...eking-patent-0

I hope to god that's a fake but then the EFF are a pretty respectable organisation as far as I'm aware...