Posner didn’t mince words as he used plain language to beat up the over-reaching arguments of both sides:

[re a slide-to-unlock patent] Apple’s .. argument is that “a tap is a zero-length swipe.” That’s silly. It’s like saying that a point is a zero-length line.

Motorola’s contention that the term has a “plain and ordinary meaning” is ridiculous; Motorola seems to have forgotten that this is a jury trial.

Apple’s getting into digital textbooks, which is a good thing for you if you are a broke student or pay for the livelihood of a broke student. Instead of buying textbooks for hundreds of dollars each, like I did, digital textbooks could cost around $15. Yes, iPads are expensive, and it’ll be awhile (if ever) until most textbooks are available like this. But college is much more expensive than an iPad. Also, old textbooks cannot play Angry Dirds as well as an iPad.

Yes, even if they do well, Apple’s tablet textbooks won’t fix the fact that teachers are underpaid, and kids are way dumber these days because we got to watch Voltron which is all about teamwork and outsmarting your opponent and they have Spongebob. But it is something that could make the world a better place.

Also, it’s appropriate that the Genesis of Apple’s Textbook program may have come from a student intern at Apple with a dream of cheaper books.