So, the takeaway is, "Damn, Apple is good at this capitalism game."
You might be mad if your team doesn't win the game, but you can't say the winner wasn't the better player. But I understand your frustration when the field has no rules and the referees are corrupt. Unfortunately, those factors are part of this game.
This comment invalidates everything else you wrote.
Apple's investment in R&D for mobile handheld usability and devices predates even the existence of some of these litigants, and predates the "smartphones" by them.
It doesn't, and it shouldn't.