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iPhone Patent Application Surfaces: IM, Blogging App, Video Conferencing, More
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That link is for a March 6th document.
This discussion is about the May 29th Document.
Imagine a device , that can replicate any device .
Do you think this will be available right after the keynote?
Exactly, the patent from march and this patent are VERY similar, almost identical. I think Apple would need all of that sutff in there to really get the iPhone moving internationally, but I highly doubt it.
I wouldn't want it to be an additional charge for video conf. either if not everyone had a new iphone too...
cash4chaos said:
Now you're talking Matrix stuff. Although, if Apple keeps coming up with devices like the iPhone (things we could only dream of 5-10 years ago), we might be headed in that direction.
No it's the much bigger country right above the USA that burned the White House to the ground the last time they pissed us off.
You don't want to make us angry again.
You guys weren't even a country then, so it wasn't technically "Canada" that burned the White House, it was the British and their Canadian colonies.
That would be like saying the USA won the French and Indian War.
And you're not "much bigger". 60,000 square miles. That's like the size of Wisconsin. Besides, most of that land is uninhabited cold wilderness.
I would pay BIG bucks to download an AIM app that would stay connected in the background while I did other things!
They have Web AIM now (such as meebo or w/e) but as soon as you navigate to a new page it disconnects..
They have Web AIM now (such as meebo or w/e) but as soon as you navigate to a new page it disconnects..
Wow! There's a use I never thought of! Apple usually takes the extra step to satisfy special needs-- let's hope they do in this case.
What makes people think that all this is free?
Apple is releasing an App Store.
Don't people think Apple will have some shiny new apps to SELL to everyone on Monday? Apps like Video Chat, GPS, Blogging, Spotlight, IM...
At $20 per pop, you do the math.
Also, to those that say that Apple just lumps everything into a patent to protect itself- it doesn't mean it is coming. Why, then, wasn't all this in the original iPhone patent from last year?
Maybe I'm naive, maybe I'm missing something but wouldn't deaf people prefer to communicate via text message on a phone rather than video taping their sign language?
good point.
No way
Maybe it's because I went from hauling a treo around to sliding this beaut in and out of my pocket, but you are nuts if you have a hard time carrying an iPhone around.
Maybe it's because I went from hauling a treo around to sliding this beaut in and out of my pocket, but you are nuts if you have a hard time carrying an iPhone around.
oooooh my gawd!!!
if anyone read the entire patent....u would see that there is a segment that talks about pinching and un pinching objects to see them better (zoom) and a few different ways to communicate through touch and movements and certain amounts of fingers alter your communication with the iphone
which means this iphone is an intro to the touch screen world
well another step.....like the one said to be in windows 7 and that apple is trying to get to.....
MG!
if anyone read the entire patent....u would see that there is a segment that talks about pinching and un pinching objects to see them better (zoom) and a few different ways to communicate through touch and movements and certain amounts of fingers alter your communication with the iphone
which means this iphone is an intro to the touch screen world
well another step.....like the one said to be in windows 7 and that apple is trying to get to.....
MG!You're right and I agree... I use that with people I network with and friends (now in form of Google Talk but other Jabber clients work great of course) but girlfriend, clients, rest of world all use the rest of the crap.
This argument would have made sense if Apple listed all these things on the original iPhone patent. But they didn't- so why did they wait until now?
If they were all about proactively patenting, they'd have included all this and more last year.
two questions:
1. has anyone heard/read anything about voice dialing?
2. would video conferencing include iphone to pc/mac or just phone to phone?
obviously no one knows the answers for sure, but any thoughts would be great. thanks
1. has anyone heard/read anything about voice dialing?
2. would video conferencing include iphone to pc/mac or just phone to phone?
obviously no one knows the answers for sure, but any thoughts would be great. thanks
I don't care about video (my iPod has no camera), I'm just thinking about text. At the moment I can use Meebo, but it "ties up" the system; I can't browse websites and receive messages in the background.