Stan Winstone

Translation: they wanted to sue in the patent-maniac land of East Texas rather than get their arses handed to them in a hat in Apple's legal venue. Stand-by for a quite massive legal action coming from Apple. This ain't over yet.

$9.99 is pretty steep for functionality that's about to be free in Lion or included in other much more capable apps such as PDFPen, etc. 99 cents might be more in line with what you get here...

Yeah there was never going to be any lawsuit from Lodsys so this banding together is not necessary. What happened was- the folks behind Lodsys had these old, broad patents that were about to expire and happened to be part of a massive portfolio Apple was licensed to. That company put together a super shoddy website and a guy (Mark Small) in an office in patent crazy East Texas and then sent out these silly letters to devs. The hope was a quick buck for zero effort. It was a lottery ticket hedge.

And now that Apple has rightfully put the smack down on this pointless effort they will quietly go away and never be heard from again as their patents expire. My only hope is that the next time a real patent troll with deeper pockets decides to go after devs directly Apple's response will be swifter and harsher. As a wise man once said, "it's not about the money- it's about sending a message."

+1 for LoseiT- it's helped me lose 28 lbs since Jan. I'm a size 30 jeans now and my wife has never been happier. It's kind of an oxymoron to have an 'easy' calorie counter. If you can't be bothered to enter in the calories accurately you're not serious about losing the weight...

Has our gov't ever seemed less relevant than it does in 2011?

BS- they are not entitled to a penny! This is just low-hanging, patent troll fruit. If they had such an open/shut case they'd a.) be asking for a lot more, b.) not having to look so amateurish by arguing their case on a blog. They'd be patiently waiting for their day in court.

And they'd just be suing. Anyone who 'threatens' a lawsuit instead of just filing one knows they have a weak case and is relying on the fear of a lawsuit to get them over the hump. Stand strong iOS devs- you will be vindicated.

Would love to see an Apple reply with the hidden costs of going with the PC machine- i.e. lost productivity, time waiting on tech support, data loss from viruses/crashes, etc. I bet doing that math is really eye-opening.

One textbook in this style of presentation is fine but how do you sustain that level of production across hundreds/thousands of textbooks. Producing video, animation, etc costs way more than text. It's the CD-ROM/Interactive/Multimedia craze all over again. A total reinvention is what's needed now, not just a lot of bells and whistles.

This seems kind of doomed in the U.S. unless AT&T/Verizon loosen up on unlimited data plans. Accessing your music/video/photos/etc from the cloud is great. Paying as you go for all that data sure isn't.

This is precisely the issue with any cloud-based service. You give up the absolute right to your data. Think any of these companies won't offer up all your 'private' data in a millisecond to a gov't subpoena or I'm guessing even a threat of a lawsuit from someone? Think again...