My name is Cédric Bozzi, I make apps and websites, and this is my tech blog — you’ll find news commentary here, from a very opinionated Mac-head.
Il y a une version française ici, but most of this blog’s contents are extracted from my Twitter feed, and hence only available in one language (which varies randomly).
Latest Apple patents: a secure iTunes Store for iPhone and hot-unpluggable iPods. Sure, future iPhone users are allowed to consider both of these to be good news but, really, why the hell are either of these concepts patentable? (I guess both of these are just applications, but given the state of the USPTO who would expect them to be denied?)
“For instance, an iPod would be accessible to the host computer during synchronization but then unmounted once synchronization has completed.
” Christ, that’s so revolutionary and non-obvious that I’m mentally peeing my pants right now.
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