@rjejr I haven't heard of the Purge movies. You have me curious!

I'm still quite convinced that we're headed for WWIII....and it will make WWII look like a dress rehearsal. Too much population, too much reason for factions to hate each other. War, famine, plague, and disaster are natural systems of nature to control excess. We're way past due for a massive excise of human population. One or the other, or all 4 since we've waited so long is all but guaranteed. If we don't have a mass extinction event via war, I'm sure Ma Nature will cook up a way to do the job anyway. Population, ultimately, is at root of so many of the other problems. Just as it always has been (the Crusades were a result of the Arab invasions which were a result of population pressure. The Black Death originally spread as a bioweapon by the Mongols during a fort siege. Funny how the more things change the more they stay the same.)

Distractions, distractions. We're guilty too. Absorbing in video games to blank out the ever worsening backdrop. I figure it's better than drugs and booze. Though it's not really cheaper. Guess we could buy porn stars. Got a million? Though the focus on that is also merely distraction. China's cutting a swath through the world, buying off countries all around, ringing in India, they own US debt, they own us. They're buying the world with the money our idiot leaders gave them for 60 years. Xi made his speech announcing his plot forward after declaring himself leader for life. Who owns your local movie theater? And the studios that make movies? Jong-Un wants peace. Sure he does. It has nothing to do with his Chinese masters finding a way to dispense with any and all interference in their backyard. Chinese Taipei(TM) will remain untouched. Honest. And we ALL know the Senkaku Islands have always belonged to China, so I'm sure nothing will happen there. Nor their new manmade islands. And we're told to focus on a porn star's abortion as the big news item, just above trans bathrooms. Distractions, distractions. Swap "China" with "USSR" and we'd have been at Defcon 1 for the past 5 years. But now we just ignore it. Because they own us, and represent industry's interests. If people actually saw past the distractions that big population reduction would start in the next 20 minutes.

As for Apple, well, they're Apple. The world's richest company. I don't think they "won" so much as bought victory. OTOH had the suit been in Seoul instead of L.A., I can guarantee you Samsung would be taking Apples lunch money. At THAT level, it's all about the purse. Nintendo and GameVice are not that level. If Google or Microsoft sues them they're in trouble. But Microsoft is showcasing the Switch at their XBox One X stage event.....they're good.

At least in Apple's suit silly as it was they were suing over a design patent on a product that was nearly identical, functioned the same, and served the same purpose in the same way with the same interface. It was still stupid and should not have won. But a chocolate bar phone suing another chocolate bar phone actually makes more sense than phone controller addon suing console ecosystem. And Apple was the first to market with the chocolate slate design. Nintendo was the first to market with the controller layout. Again, there's nothing about gamevice's products of which part wasn't already done by Nintendo in some combination. Dual detachables? Famicom. Button layout? SNES. Analog sticks? N64. Wireless? Wavebird. Controller on a screen? Game Boy. Nothing about Switch is anything but evolution on things Nintendo already made long before GameVice existed. That's what makes it sketchy. It is GameVice building a product with mostly recycled Nintendo patents and then suing Nintendo for their next iteration. For that matter Nyko and such could sue gamevice for having a phone mounted controller.