Steve Jobs, hes no Edison

[Grieve]

The idea that you could then zoom in on an image by putting two fingers on the screen and moving your fingers apart (enlarging the image by defining the corners) is also obvious. You should not be able to patent that.

Everything is obvious after someone does it for the first time. The little rings on top of cans to make opening them easier is obvious...but yet no-one did it for decades. If your criteria for getting a patent is that no-one else can say "well duh, I could have thought of that..." then no-one would ever get one.

What a great world that will be. People will just sit around waiting for someone else to innovate, and then since it can't be protected, they'll just steal it and sell it far cheaper than the originator, because they didn't need to spend millions of dollars in R&D developing it and perfecting it.

Oh wait...Google already lives in that world...