A patent recently filed by Apple and unearthed by the folks at Apple Insider suggests that future iterations of the Iphone and Ipod Touch firmwear could enable media streaming.
Current restrictions in storage capacity mean that most users have to cherry-pick their favourite tunes and videos to put on their portable devices. But the proposed method would mean that the device would only contain metadata, about one per cent of the file's size, and stream the remaining content over the Interweb.
So that frustratingly small 8GB Iphone you just purchased could soon be a multi-terabyte multimedia monster.
It would also put an end to the curse of the four-hour backup which many Iphone users have been wailing about since the release of the Iphone 2.X firmware.
Story source:
theinquirer.net
