Apple has applied for lots of patents for touchsensitive iPod/tablets but what does this mean? Are these patent applications going to become actual products? This article looks at Apple’s track record for patenting released products.

Operation of a computer with touch screen interface

It is desirable to use the information about a user’s actions to make the user experience with the computer, via the touch screen virtual keyboard, more powerful than is usual (or, perhaps, even possible) with computers using external keyboards.

Glimpse of Apple’s OS X 10.5 - Leopard in Pat. Apps?
Some Apple patents for Spotlight have recently surfaced and they show sides of the Finder we haven’t seen before.
Apple is expected to release the next version of OS X - 10.5 “Leopard” by the end of 2006 or early 2007. Little information has leaked about [...]

Apple has decided to lodge a Patent Application covering the use of a wide trackpad in a Power/MacBook. Nothing too earth shattering and it doesn’t appear to be a multipoint touchpad like described in previous patent applications.