So, you're saying that a company deserves to be sued if it makes a product that was previously unaffordable for the masses, affordable? That's totally being an elitist (and in a way discriminatory). Not that I'm outraged with your comment, I just think that everyone having access to technology is only a good thing and it is actual progress by itself.

Releasing a cheaper product is just free market competition. Suing for patents is abusing a government granted monopoly.

Microsoft did release a cheaper Web Browser than Netscape, back in the day.

...that was deeply entwined with their monopoly operating system.

True, I never claimed otherwise.

and i suppose Amazon "went nuclear" against Apple by selling the Kindle at cost?

apparently that's what it takes just to enter these dominated markets. which is more than just a little scary.