By Greg Mills
Currently the Apple Developer Tools used to create apps for iOS, that run on the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad are really professional programs. While they have drag and drop elements, the way they all fit together and work to create an app is not something a child can easily do.
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Several new Apple patents have popped up at the US Patent & Trademark Office. Following is a summary of each.
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Apple has been granted a patent (number 7,757,173) by the US Patent & Trademark Offic for its for a voice menu system for its idevices — and apparently plans to tweak it even more in the future. It relates to media players and, more particularly, to navigating menus of media players.
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An Apple patent (number 7,757,186) has appeared at the US Patent & Trademark Office that shows that Apple is far from finished when it comes to innovative ways to control its various devices.
The patent is for motion plane correction for MEMS-based input devices. The invention relates to technology for monitoring motion of electronic input devices, and more particularly to technology for motion plane correction of motion-based input devices. The inventor is Farshid Moussavi.
Read MoreLast week I devoted several columns to what I perceive as the future of the Mac. I’ve asked my “MacNews” compadres to offer their thoughts. And here they are…
Scott Alexander says:
“Five years — that’s a long time in technology. There’s the obvious stuff like speed, speed, and more speed. There are a lot of directions I could go here; for example practical 3D displays with multi-touch and then move to my perennial favorite home servers (my newest term for that is now ‘femtocloud’ — owing to the popular cloud mentality and the AT&T home cell phone access points).
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