A patent originally filed by Apple back in 2008 has just been allow by the US Patent Office , with the tech giant star somehow managing to convince the agency it should own a patent for a method acting of displaying maps on a touchscreen equipment .
It ’s not the hugely apocalyptic attack on Google Maps you might look , as the patent mostly concentre on Apple ’s own iOS Maps touch - based interface that used to sit atop Google ’s mapping data , although the construct of Apple being allowed to patent anything to do with such a canonic characteristic as showing a map to a person on a touching display seems rather lurid .
Back in 2008 , however , mobile map were n’t quite so critical . Many phones could n’t even manage mapping , and those that did offered crappy custom interfaces often controlled by things roll in the hay as “ buttons ” . As well as brood Apple ’s own touching control system , this patent also advert more complex technical issues and some we incline to tie in with Google , like the conception of pins marking locations .
If Apple was to deal to force Google to dumb down its mapping tools in any way as a issue of this , it would be an enormous victory for the company . And a big loss for non - Apple substance abuser around the world , too . [ USPTOviaApple InsiderviaGizmodo UK ]
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