You're missing my point. I'm not really arguing about which billion dollar company did or didn't copy trivial/non-trivial patents from another billion dollar company.
You seem to think that anything legally allowed is ethical. That if Apple has an obligation to their shareholders to do X and X is legal, then it's totally ethical for Apple to do X.
You seem to think that anything legally allowed is ethical. That if Apple has an obligation to their shareholders to do X and X is legal, then it's totally ethical for Apple to do X.
That's not what ethical means.