Steve Jobs, hes no Edison

[Grieve]

Indeed, they live in a world where the 2nd place phone os blatently rips off or buys other peoples ideas, package them nicely and then proclaim what original geniuses they are.

If you mean Siri, where have Apple been proclaiming they were original geniuses for inventing it? They have been very clear about the fact they bought the company - they didn't even change the name of it.

If the android is such a rip off of ios then why, especially after Jobs promised to squander his companies wealth to get revenge on google, have there been no significant legal actions against the ios - all of the actions are against hardware manufacturers.

It's difficult to sue someone who gives something away for free. Similar to George Lucas - create a Star Wars "tribute" and release it free, you're pretty much fine. Try to charge a fee for it, and the hounds of Lucas descend on you. Apple sue companies who create a product (phone or tablet) that rips off the iPhone or iPad, regardless of where the software came from.

Also Samsung went way beyond Android in their copying of the iPhone and iPad.

Incidentally, I'm getting a leaked galaxy Nexus phone from my google buddies next week.

I'm getting an iPad 3 with the 500 bucks I'll be winning from you.