"Podmaps" concept patent sought by Apple

Like many Apple patents, there's no indication (or even suggestion) that anything like this would ever see the light of day, but it does tell us that Apple is looking at doing more with marrying their hardware with maps software, just like the great improvements we saw in the iPhone's 1.1.3 update. Hardly a surprise, too, that a company so strongly turning towards portable computing is thinking about the needs of portable users. But a cool idea nevertheless, and it also confirms that Apple sees the iTS's podcast model as a strong and easy way of quickly distributing content of all kinds.
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AppleInsider has uncovered news of an Apple patent application for a software concept called a "podmap," which is more or less what it...
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Garmin announced something like this sometime mid-2007 with Intellitours. In case you can't wait for it to make it to the iPhone, you could always download one of those for your GPS.
February 15 2008 at 4:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyShoot - it ate my link.
http://www.intellitours.com/news/2007/07/27/intellitours-unveils-gps-audio-driving-tours-for-garmi-nuvi/
Whoops, that was meant to say Old News - don't I look the fool - Oh well!!
February 15 2008 at 10:14 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyTo be honest, you looked a fool even without the typo. People who post old news posts are fools, especially when the 'old' news they complain about is actually only a day old.
February 15 2008 at 1:15 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply"People who post old news posts are fools, especially when the 'old' news they complain about is actually only a day old."
If that wasn't enough, he appears to have posted as an excuse to linkwhore his own blog. :)
Old new:
http://www.macrumors.com/2008/02/14/podmaps-to-provide-mobile-maps-and-directions/
just saying like!
www.blog.sizzla-media.co.uk
This is one of the ideas I threw into the "Dream App" contest. With Alex's voice being able to be spoken directly to a file, I could see how this could work quite easily. So, for those iPods that don't and may never see WiFi (nano), you can still get some really cool driving instructions. It's not like I haven't been loading the text of the directions on my iPod already :D
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