What I find interesting about all of these approved patents is that even though "First to File" is the current system, a patent isn't supposed to be granted to a company that can't prove that they invented something first.

So if two companies invent something within a short period of time, things would get dicey, however, in most cases Apple is using ideas from 10-20 years ago. Though they are being granted patents now, I think in the long run they will end up losing them and or some of these technological patents will become nullified.