Apple has tons of patents, including almost 150 authored or co-authored by Jobs himself.
Apple engineered Fire-Wire, mini-Display Port, SOC schemes like bridges for motherboard, recently A4 SOC for iPad, first ever mass-produced customizable battery for notebooks, rest pad in notebooks (in 1991), magnet power plug, multi-touch screens withou 500-1000 sensors and countless other things that HTC could never even theoretically imagined to pioneer.
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