It's plain to see now why Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs shows no fear of Microsoft's upcoming wireless Zune digital media player and service.
Patent filings reveal he's entrenched in plans that could include a Wi-Fi device and wireless downloading of songs from an e-commerce store. The filing was explicit enough to note that the patent would allow a device to pick up songs from thin air, send a sample of them wirelessly to a server database, and then download the associated song, video or other media type. Full story here.
Why so many blogs appeared to get off track and cover radio and XM entirely, I just don't get. It seems pretty clear from the filing that it suggests much more than that. Even the diagram would suggets much more than that. So what gives with the bloggers? It does seem there's an XM part, just that this doesn't seem like the most important part.
XM radio nearly confirmed it. A representative there said that she'd seen mention of the filing in her company internal communications. She declined to comment further, saying that it was not her department. The people whose department it was--two in corporate communications--avoided me all day even though a secretary told me they were both in and nearby. Lovely. So there's news there. There is some sort of XM story to follow up.
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