This patent war is ridiculous, and even more ridiculous that so many people are now convinced that apple is merited with their claims. Patent laws have turned into a scary world for creative design, no one is safe. Here's a great article giving some insight into why maybe apple isn't so innocent after all;
Are you insinuating that apple designed the look for google maps on the iphone? google maps existed long before it was on the iphone, through google.com. The iPhone map looks just like the home browser version. The style looks the same on an android, blackberry and iPhone. Apple ripped off google maps plain an simple, but I agree with the original poster, there is nothing wrong with that, and it just shows how full of BS apple really is.