LOL, Google just announced this feature for Android last week at Google IO. When will Apple stop stealing other's ideas? It's one thing to simply copy a good idea. It's the whole patenting it and playing it off as its own idea that makes Apple an unethical and despicable company.
Do not bother with Snake72. He is actually Otacon72 who has been banned a dozen times and keeps coming back.
As for your post, spot on. Apple is 3 years late. Apple is still trying to have half the options Android has.
I understand you're a fanboy, so you get a pass for shooting your mouth off. Did you bother to look at when the patent was filed?
Appl. No.: 13/731893
Filed: December 31, 2012
So in actuality Google is the one "stealing" ideas...