Well, didn't Steve Jobs himself come right out and say Apple is "shameless about stealing great ideas" back in the mid 90's? (There's a YouTube clip of him saying that in case any apologists feel the need to make yet another excuse for Apple's double standard regarding innovation, to wit: What's ours is ours - and what's yours is ours too if we decide I want to copy it.)

Apparently protecting the rights of IP stakeholders only applies to Apple's IP. Everything else is fair game in their reality distortion zone.