Apple patent shows iPhone ruling the home
Apple has patented using an NFC-equipped iPhone to set up links between electronic devices, hinting at how the company sees the future of the living room and its part there. The recently published patent covers the use of an iPhone to connect to various consumer devices, including speakers, televisions and set-top boxes. The …
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Totally prior art
I know someone who's working on a very similar system, which itself is based on another methodology. And no, I won't tell you what those are.
The point is: it's been done before. Easily proven. Epic patent fail (with any luck!).
iPhones already have NFC
You have to stand less than 20cm from the router to get a signal...
I think it is more telling that...
This new fangled iphone doesnt have MMS. just "Text" apparently! How quaint.
I gather this patent was drawn up by a poor staffer who has a crappy old iphone!
quaint?
Ooh how quaint?
Someone that hasn't heard of the new fangled concept of email.
See - I can be a tit too.
!em kcuF
"give Cupertino an unprecedented level of control over what goes on in your living room."
Next it'll be the bedroom.
I'm off to trademark iBedroom :-)
More fun for hackers.
Plus when the machines rise up I'm not going to be able to open the curtains or change the channel as well!
valuable in the bathroom too
iSh1t seems an appropriate name.
Buy an iPhone to run my home?
I genuinely thought when I first saw the sub-heading that NFC stood for No F***ing Chance, that's my reaction anyway....
Glad I wasn't the only one
I had the very same thought!!!!
It also reflects my feelings on the matter as well.
nfc
I saw iPPLE in the heading and therefore natturally assumed NFC meant No Fucking Chance.
turns out I was right.
Bit of a problem
I go down the pub taking my iPhone with me.... how's the wifey going to change channel?
but...
it's difficult to sue people over open standards.....
Apple
"Apple's extension to that is for the serving device to provide only URLs to the client"
Ah, so it is like their "Bluetooth" implementation; It says bluetooth on the outside, but when you try to use it, you find the tin is empty...
File transfer? no.
Keyboard? no.
Link to my Tom Tom? no.
...
@ Apple
Strange - my iphone links to my Tom Tom quite happily.
I've actually been quite impressed with the Tom Tom's ability to read out i/c SMS in a manner that actually allows them to be understood.
iHeaven
Just think I could control my iTV with my iControl sitting on my iSofa listening to my iAudio just no iPorn (unless its playboy).
And the point is ...
... that every device maker will have to put Apples source in evey peice of hardware just so the fanboyz can use their iPhone to change channels.
Wake up TV,Audio and settop box makers of the world and produce a standard for this now before its too late. The alternative is to eate Apple crowle for the rest of eternaty as you pay what ether Apple wants to charge to have their source in your hardware!
Unlikely
TV/Audio/Set top boxes can't even standardise on either remotes or the protocols to interlink a devices between themselves. Look at the fact there is Sony's Bravia Sync, Panasonics Viera Link, Philips EasyLink all do the same job and all are not compatable with each other.
NFC (and I'm not talking near field there!) they adopt a standard that will mean interoperability of anything but the basics unless it's forced (ie SCART/ DVI / VGA or HDMI ) and Apple are not likely to be big enough to do it.
Also don't underestimate the costs. A large part of why VHS won over Beta is because Sony and JVC both wanted royalties but JVC didn't want as much per machine. JVC gambles on licencing the format out for very little, counting on a small amount per unit but a higher unit volume shifted, they were right. Apple will want top dollar for their royalties, and in a enviroment where price is a factor for many people how likely id is they will push the cost of a set up for a feature many end users will not use or want.?
missed point
I was implying that they should come together not that they could or would.
Prior art? Positively prehistoric
In what way is this different to the plethora of remote control apps that have been available in the Android marketplace for ages? Why do I need NFC when I've got Wi-Fi and Bluetooth?
Apple is your friend
From Orwell's 1984:
"We are not content with negative obedience, nor even with the most abject submission. When finally you surrender to us, it must be of your own free will."
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