Apple's touch-screen patent

As far as I can tell from a brief look, all of the claims involve both a particular gesture and a particular command. In order to work around this patent, developers would only have to use a non-overlapping mapping of gestures to commands. It seems highly unlikely that the space of gestures with multiple fingers is so constrained that it would be impossible to come up with different (and maybe better) controls from the ones in this list. This patent should only prevent people from making devices whose interfaces are just like iPhones. Considering that (from my point of view) Apple got wrong what happens when you click on an icon, what icons are displayed for, where menus are, what window controls exist, how keyboard focus is determined, how windows are moved and resized, (...), and even the effect on the cursor of movement on the trackpad, and, worse, other people seem to have adopted their mistakes, I'm glad that developers will be forced to find the right multi-touch interface instead of copying Apple.