“And while Apple continues to deny that they’re working on a next generation television, you’d have to be an idiot reporter for even expecting Apple to say: ‘Oh, yes, we’re about to reinvent television and here are the juicy details.’ Ha! If you know Apple, then you know not to ask questions about ‘future products’ and expect a reply,” Purcher reports. “With that said, a very simple Apple patent was published today by the USPTO that insists that the company’s Apple TV remote is to work with a clearly defined television – beyond what we know as Apple TV – the set top box style unit.”
“Anyone following Apple knows what Apple TV is – including its unique little infrared remote, so I’m not going to go over the same old tech. I’m just going to point out that Apple mentions ‘television’ separately from Apple TV noted as a ‘set top box,’ eleven times,” Purcher reports. “What threw me for a moment is that Apple’s patent [illustration] shows a computer display-like device and of course my mind paid no attention to their visual that they presented. Well, until Apple insisted that it wasn’t a desktop computer nor a computer display – that is. In plain English, they’re calling it a ‘television.'”
Purcher reports, “Sorry, but that wasn’t an accident. Engineers who design Apple’s products aren’t going to call something a television that is clearly an iMac, a desktop or simply a Cinema Display. Sometimes a television is just that, a television.”
Full article, with patent illustrations, here.
[Attribution: ZDNet]