between Apple and PTSC. One can only wonder why with so much value to their products, Apple didn't pay more for an MMP license. I guess they don't infringe much...

Look at these numbers:

Let’s put some perspective on this huge numbers that Apple’s .bgChannel, .bgRealtimeChannel, .bgRevision { display: none; } /quotes/zigman/68270/quotes/nls/aaplAAPL+2.05% throwing around. In the press release, the company says that it expects these moves to cost the company $45 billion over the next 3 years. That’s a huge sum of money. The IRS says that Individual income tax return filers received tax refunds totaling over $248 billion in FY 2007.

In other words, Apple, this one little company, is alone going to pump 1/5 of the annual total IRS income tax refunds for individuals in this country.

More recently, how about this for some perspective — the IRS collected a total of of $18,842,76 in estate and gift taxes in 2010. Apple will be paying out $12 billion a year in dividends now. One company will pay out almost as much to its investors as the grand total of all the amount of estate and gift taxes that the IRS brought in last year.

Even more shocking is the fact that Apple generated nearly $18 billion of cash flow last quarter alone. Multiply that times four. And Apple’s still one of the fastest growing companies in the world.