this is for their &quot;design patents&quot; issued in 2007.<p>which can basically be described as &quot;a phone as a box with a touchscreen and no keyboard&quot;<p>all they &quot;make&quot; is the box. they don&#x27;t own the rights to any of the parts inside it (although they do have exclusive distribution rights for the versions of the components they put in the box)<p>OK they write their own firmware for those boxes. but none of that is actually that good. anyone using their latest kit knows their phones don&#x27;t even work that good as a phone.<p>apple as a company won&#x27;t survive past the last of Steve jobs patents expiring. which is no later than 2028.