If anything, it's apple evidently patenting an existing product - iAlertU has been doing this on new MacBooks and MacBook Pros since 2006.
It's actually a pretty good idea, and an interesting repurposing of technology that was implemented in the systems for an entirely different reason (HDD Shock Protection, IIRC)
I'm not sure about b-m's comments up there, but this is cool, and although I don't think it should be patentable by Apple at this point, it would make a welcome addition to OS X.
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What? How is this "bound to fail?"
If anything, it's apple evidently patenting an existing product - iAlertU has been doing this on new MacBooks and MacBook Pros since 2006.
It's actually a pretty good idea, and an interesting repurposing of technology that was implemented in the systems for an entirely different reason (HDD Shock Protection, IIRC)
I'm not sure about b-m's comments up there, but this is cool, and although I don't think it should be patentable by Apple at this point, it would make a welcome addition to OS X.