engadget.com — it appears that Apple is doing a good bit of work behind the scenes to ensure that future iPhone users will be able to access and purchase tunes (and video?) from the iTunes Store. Apple's recently filed "Configuration of a computing device in a secure manner" patent
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datisitFeb 2, 2007
I agree. You should be able to do it all from the phone. No computer needed!
jman8888Feb 2, 2007
I hope people can download podcasts Wirelessly like when a new one shows up it automatically gets it.
1021Feb 2, 2007
"Configuration of a computing device in a secure manner" patent. Wow, just wow.How much more generic can these patents get? It's a danger to creativity I tell you.
spurtleFeb 2, 2007
"Published Patent Application != Patent."With the patent office rubber stamping everything that goes by their desk these days, it pretty much does. I mean come on, Method of Swinging on a Swing? Method of Doing Commerce over the Internet?
mobilehavocFeb 2, 2007
Oh yes this is an excellent idea...all over the iPhone's amazing EDGE connection. Good luck with that s**t.
1jaxstate1Feb 2, 2007
All over the iPhones WiFi connetion! This is good news.
spurtleFeb 2, 2007
A patent that was granted in 2002 where a child would swing side to side instead of forwards and backwards. This isn't new as children on the playground were doing this 25 years ago when I was a kid and were being yelled at because they were colliding with other children on the swings."The Patent Office currently doesn't actively look for challenges against patents, and other inventors, they leave that up to the inventors to decide. So if someone tries to patent something that's ridiculously obvious, there's no recourse but to sue them after it's happened (or hope that the prior art is so well known that the patent application is rejected)."Which pretty much proves my point in disagreeing with the parent saying that an application does not equal a patent. The application will go through. Maybe someone will sue Apple, or it will end up standing up in court like Amazon's patents covering standard brick and mortar practices that were considered "innovative" because it was applied to the internet.