Patent Find: Apple Possibly Bringing iTunes to iPhone Streaming

by Jody Mitoma on August 7, 2008 at 10:38 pm

Apple has allowed iTunes to stream over the internet - as well as your LAN - in the past, but has removed the possibility of doing so rather quickly after implementing it. Most likely caused by RIAA in one way or another. However, Apple Insider has done some digging, and has found a patent that looks to picture a way to stream music over the internet to your iPhone and iPod touch.

The goal is to prevent you from having to selectively sync content to your device - instead, you’d sync just the metadata and stream whatever you wanted direct from your machine as though it was all stored locally.

The addition of streaming your iPhone to your iTunes library is more than welcome, and would most likely be used by many.

(via Engadget)