Apple Patentmania: 31 Years of Big Ideas

A visual history of Apple patent filings: the brilliant, the bizarre, the just plain bad.

By  |  Monday, December 15, 2008 at 1:19 am

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Media Player System

Filed April 25th, 2003

This drawing shows shows a classic-style iPod with wireless capability zapping music wirelessly to multiple other devices. Interesting idea. But five years later, even the iPods that do include wireless capability–the Touch and the iPhone–don’t do anything like this.

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