How is me making an app that makes API calls to iOS an "use of Apple's intellectual property"? I'm not distributing any IP besides my own, all I'm doing is telling the API to execute in a certain way inside the hardware the user already posseses.
A good analogy would be me making a new control panel for a mechanical machine, where the panel has metal arms and rods that connect to the machine's original mechanisms to bring about a certain result that the machine itself would be incapable of bringing on its own.
You wouldn't say I can't distribute that new panel I made because the original machine is patented, right?
A good analogy would be me making a new control panel for a mechanical machine, where the panel has metal arms and rods that connect to the machine's original mechanisms to bring about a certain result that the machine itself would be incapable of bringing on its own.
You wouldn't say I can't distribute that new panel I made because the original machine is patented, right?