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Get off the swing Steve Jobs. Its time to give someone else a turn.

BY cat dumas | 02-01-2009 | 4:59 PM
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Wow! Is it a great time to be a lawyer or what?  It seems that Apple has been locked in court, as both defendant and plaintiff, for the last couple years over petty school yard crap.  Now they are planning to sue Palm for the right to use gestures on the touchscreen.

Um…..I’ve been using palm devices for, what, over 10 years now and I could swear the screen has been operating with GESTURES of my stylus, which is quite a LOT like a really skinny FINGER, on every model I’ve owned…….WTF?

I’m a big apple computer fan and have owned as many of them as I have Palm PDA’s over the years but lately it seems like Jobs has turned into an uber-monster since the iPhone came out.  We medical field people love our Palms for the 1000’s of medical apps we ALREADY OWN and want to continue to use them on our new and improved PALM devices.

Hello? Steve Jobs?  Is it ok if somebody else on the planet earns a living besides YOU????? Stop kicking sand in everyone’s face and go home for a while.  And don’t forget your Beatles lunchbox.