http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/ Engadget Comments for Apple patent filing details "touch and go" USB devices http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/Jul 26th 2009 11:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/Jul 26th 2009 11:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/Jul 26th 2009 11:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/Jul 26th 2009 11:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/Jul 26th 2009 11:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/
I guess I'm not sure what you're talking about. I'm looking at my iPhone right now....and when I touch it, it responds. How would they program it like the iPhone/pod, make it have an unlock slider? Is that what you mean, because after the screen is unlocked it responds to all touches. Unless they had a way to unlock it, it would respond to touch.

And having to have an unlock mechanism is stupid. More work than the way it's done now.]]>Jul 27th 2009 12:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/Jul 27th 2009 12:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/Jul 27th 2009 12:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/
like the slide to unlock feature, so a bump or touch wouldnt affect it.]]>Jul 27th 2009 12:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/Jul 27th 2009 3:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/
The capacitive touch screen is not "programmed" to respond less to other objects, it technically cannot respond to them. Capacitive touch is based on the assumption (fact?) that all humans emit a small amount of electromagnetic radiation, which can be detected by the screen. This technology has been around for some time.

Also, I think the concern is that if I touch it but am not actually removing it from the system, that it will unmount and stop working with the computer. If it detects that you are "about" to touch it, then just moving my hand close to it may disable the drive.]]>Jul 27th 2009 8:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/Jul 26th 2009 11:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/Jul 26th 2009 11:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/Jul 26th 2009 11:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/Jul 27th 2009 2:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/]]>Jul 26th 2009 11:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/Jul 26th 2009 11:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/Jul 26th 2009 11:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/
and even worse, what if it is an encrypted file? THE IRONY!]]>Jul 26th 2009 11:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/Jul 27th 2009 12:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/
What do you know!]]>Jul 26th 2009 11:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/
Or is OSX even worse about locking usb devices than windows. One of my biggest pet peeves. ]]>Jul 26th 2009 11:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/Yep... glad I stopped using that one. (And no, I'm not a MacOS user either. Use your imagination).

Cached writes are actually intentionally chosen for flash memory devices, as opposed writing immediately. This happens throughout MacOS and most Linux operating systems. I'm no expert on these things, but my understanding on the matter is that this approach keeps the pressure lower on the file system's tables, saving precious memory write cycles.]]>Jul 26th 2009 11:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/Jul 26th 2009 11:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/Jul 27th 2009 12:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/Jul 27th 2009 12:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/Jul 27th 2009 12:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/Jul 27th 2009 12:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/
Oh... wait... that's how Windows handles it.

Way to go Apple, inventing an expensive gimmicky solution to a problem you should have in the first place. Bravo, really.]]>Jul 27th 2009 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/
Bah.]]>Jul 27th 2009 1:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/
Frankly, the need to "Eject" a device that is not currently in active use has been an irritant for many years so anything that does away for the need to "eject" it manually gets my vote.]]>Jul 27th 2009 3:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/Jul 27th 2009 3:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/Jul 27th 2009 3:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/Jul 27th 2009 8:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/
Where they need to use this is in the Shuffle. If Apple insists on not having any physical buttons they might as well make it touch sensitive. Two taps to pause and a tap and a stroke to play...Two strokes to shuffle.]]>Jul 27th 2009 4:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/
I never, ever, eject them, I just yank them out, and I've been using XP, Vista, and 7. Maybe some day one will corrupt (I know a couple of my friends have managed to corrupt theirs, but that's usually because they yank them while they're still being accessed)

But as I'm sensible and keep backups in more than one place, I'll just go out and buy another drive that's double the capacity of the old one for the same price I paid before, like I do every year anyway.]]>Jul 27th 2009 4:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/
The pendrive even comes with a light to tell you if it is doing something or not; and I wouldn't ever pay the premium that Apple charges for it's products; I bet I could buy 2 same capacity Kingston Pendrives cheaper than one of the Apple ones, and have spare money.]]>Jul 27th 2009 12:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/26/apple-patent-filing-details-touch-and-go-usb-devices/
"Wow, I'm not paying $100 for that."

This is a patent announcement! Who the hell said it would be $100 or any other price?

"Uh, it's going to be $100 because Apple stuff is, like, way more expensive and stuff."

How many times does this have to be proven factually, empirically wrong until you people will shut up? Some things (BTO RAM, Black on a MacBook for example) are stupidly expensive from Apple, but where are you morons when when Dell charges you $100 for a color, and makes you pay $30 for Bluetooth? The overwhelming majority of Apple's products, especially their consumer products, are priced in-line or even competitively to their competitors. There is no way to validate this opinion with facts.

Every time Apple announces a product, everyone races to prove it's too expensive, then the facts roll in and everyone realizes they're comparing nicely equipped macs with a baseline netbook that has a 4GB hard drive and no wireless.

"I don't eject and it doesn't hurt me."

Wow, I guess if don't get struck by lighting playing golf in a thunderstorm, it must be totally safe.

"Windows doesn't have this problem. Apple just wants to charge you to fix it."

God...just...too stupid to respond.]]>Jul 27th 2009 2:41PM