Apple's Pointless Battle Over Rectangles - Outrage

(TheStreet) -- Apple AAPL is wasting its time and money battling over patents in a vanity-inspired legal effort to monopolize the tablet market with its iPad. We'll no doubt be hearing a lot about tablet lawsuits this week when Apple and Samsung face off during oral arguments before a German court that may determine whether Apple can claim to be the exclusive creator of the flat rectangle concept for tablets. How can anyone claim that they are the unique inventor of the rectangle? With smart phones and tablets, the form is determined by screen and the casing -- it pretty much forces every phone and tablet to be a variation on a rectangle that's as thin as current technology will allow. Continue reading the article.