Things are getting interesting. The smartphone world has copied Apple, and yesterday Apple was granted a patent for a mobile user interface that comprises patent applications going all the way back to 2007. At a time when smartphone makers were covering their phones with buttons and more buttons, Apple was imagining a phone without buttons and a multitouch interface and all the other features that are now so familiar. Steve Jobs hated the fact that Android had copied Apple, and earlier this year CEO Tim Cook said "From our point of view, it's important that Apple not be the developer for the world.