gimpwiz

It's really not. Old patents are expired anyways. Canon can make a knockoff of an old Leica lens (and actually used to, sort of) but what would they do with it in today's market?

One major difference between apple and intel is that apple generally has a much shorter time between spec and mass production. If you make assumptions based on knowing that Intel has six consecutive server chips in the pipeline, you might not be quite correct applying that to apple.