Apple application 20130044215, filed with the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), is the best evidence so far as to how iWatch may look and work.
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To make every application on every Apple device act and feel like every other application on every Apple device, and to have the software of every Apple device echo the hardware design it runs on.
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Mickey Cargile, managing partner at Cargile Investments, notes that the e-book revolution is continuing through an Apple iPhone application, called Books.app, which is an e-reader.
Labels are getting a new groove, too: Universal Music's Polydor Records is prepping an enhanced version of the band Snow Patrol's upcoming album, A Hundred Million Suns, for distribution as an Apple iPhone application.
Not that anyone should rely entirely upon a map of any sort of course, but mistakes in the Apple Maps application in iOS6 do seem to pose perhaps more danger than some other such mistakes.
It earlier this month opened an Apple-like application store online.
Apple's application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office describes a process for placing an order and then notifying customers when an order is ready to grab at a pick-up station.
For anything that involves electronic parts, manufacturers need a "Made for iPhone" or "Made for iPod" certification in order to be featured by Apple, the application for which costs just several hundreds of dollars each time.
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It's also worth noting that Apple's Aperture application offers a similar mapping view, for those already using it to manage and edit photo galleries.
After a roller-coaster month with the iPhone 5, iOS 6, and the issues around the new Maps application, Apple need a solid base hit.
Build the same application with Apple's tools, Atkinson figures, and not only will his program run faster--it might be able to communicate with other parts of the phone, such as the address book, and, say, enable forwarding an audio clip to friends.
And the Apple iPad mobile digital device application for LinkedIn is almost entirely built from HTML5.
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Apple has also added an application called Address Book that is essentially a central repository for all your contacts.
In the filing, United States Patent Application 20100207721, Apple is asking for a patent on several methods for identifying unauthorized users of an electronic device.
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It is already possible to buy a piece of kit that plugs into a car's engine-management system and sends data to an application on an Apple iPhone.
Exhibit A: Apple's new patent application for a wireless display.
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At each of his famous Macworld keynote speeches that he made in 2002, Jobs had been secretly testing a new Apple-made presentation software application called, not surprisingly, Keynote.
The problem was that someone at Apple decided to rip Google Maps out of the iPhone and make Apple Maps the default mapping application, as part of the crushing tectonic plate-like battle between these online behemoths.
It began designing a light-weight IntelliMatch application for the Apple tablet so bank users could check on operations even while they were out away from their desks in meetings, where many senior users spend most of their days.
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Even in this consumer boom that is still the vast majority of all tech spending, though consumer devices like an Apple iPhone with a corporate application, or a company building software using Amazon Web Services, make those distinctions harder.
But Apple changed its system, leaving application developers everywhere scrambling to find the next proven strategy to acquire users.
If Apple wanted to remove the video application totally, it certainly could.
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Now that Google has brought its famous mapping application to iOS 6, Apple may not need to bother.
Apple is scrambling, and the maps application is indeed getting better, even if Google still has a gigantic lead.
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Or will Apple open up these devices to any application developer, even if they threaten to damage its music business?
So behind that sleek new Apple iPhone whatever-it-does application are a bunch of software developers crowded into a brick building that 100 years ago housed a meat warehouse, a button factory, or maybe a flophouse.
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In somewhat related news, Apple has also recently filed a patent application that would bring some fairly extensive new speech recognition options to the iPhone -- if it ever actually moves beyond a patent application, that is.
It's unclear whether Apple has put a gag order on application developers like Stitcher, or if everyone is genuinely confused about the apps the computer giant will distribute for its iPhone and iPod Touch at its new Apps Store inside iTunes.
Using the included IR remote or the REDRAY iOS application (available from the Apple App Store), users can connect to REDRAY via wireless network to select and manage their 4K and HD content, stored on the internal 1TB capacity hard disk drive.
But the application is one of several that Apple has now filed quoting AMOLED displays as a component of its inventions.
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