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Re:Obama and the Smartphone Wars by fpgeek on Thursday August 25, 2011 @11:12PM (#2927225)
More than a little. I'm beating my favorite patent drum again, but one of Apple's alleged "inventions" (that amazingly survived first-round review at the ITC) is this:

http://www.google.com (i.e. recognizing things like URLs in free-form text and turning them into clickable actions).

Prior art for this includes such obscure pieces of software as Netscape Navigator 2 ("live" URLs in mail and newsgroup messages), released months before Apple filed for this patent.

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