iPhone to Remotely Access iTunes Media Library, Patent Filing Shows

[Guest]

Cupertino (CA) - Apple's latest patent filing may be an indication of a new iPhone feature that could allow the smartphone as well as the iPod touch to remotely access the iTunes library stored on a Mac or PC.

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[Joevans]

The remote feature is already enabled. There's an app for the iPhone called "Remote."

The P2P networking is an interesting feature. I like to hear that.

 

[Guest]

Umm, is this a joke? They are _patenting_, as a unique, new idea, the "breakthrough" of accessing a media library over the network? That's really kind of sad for them, I mean personally I'd be humiliated submitting something like that. It's laughable. Welcome to the next generation of genius patents - take stuff people do all the time, and add "to the iPhone" to the end, and voila - new idea! Idiots.

 

[Guest]

Tversity sort of supports this today. But you can only play a single song each time.

The way around it is to create a single stream and then send this to the ipod. I've been trying to get tversity to stream media to my iPod Touch for about 6 months now.

To patent the technology is a joke.

 

[Guest]

''Johnny22'' I am so with you, this is non-sense, I've been doing this for at least 3 years now on my Windows Mobile phone, Orb, anybody. Seems like Apple can patent whatever they will, kinda sad no one is answering back...

Cheers,
JiM

BTW I am not an apple fan nor basher, I have a macbook but use boot camped vista most of the time.