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One of the hangups with Apple’s iTunes is that currently there is no way for you to directly ‘gift’ digital media to a friend or family member. Though you can easily coque iphone 6 plus trade, coque autres huawei re sell or give away a music CD, you can’t coque samsung s7 do that with movies, coque huawei pro books any other coque huawei p20 digital coque samsung j5 content types offered on Apple’s iTunes Store.

A patent application published coque samsung s7 Thursday could solve this dilemma, thanks to near field communications (NFC) technology, which has yet coque samsung j5 to be deployed across Apple coque samsung j4 devices. Patent coque iphone 5 and Trademark Office, instead of a second party receiving an email from iTunes that a song or video has been purchased, coque samsung j6 an item could be gifted to a nearby iOS device simply with the press of a button

After iTunes authenticates the transfer, ensuring a piece of digital media can be transferred to the handset or tablet, the gifter coque samsung a40 can send a copy of a song currently coque huawei p30 playing on their device by using new iOS features.

The “Media gifting devices and methods”, coque samsung note also coque samsung s5 mentions the giver can add a photo and maybe even an audio coque iphone 7 file along with the transfer. This potentially means you could send along a photo of the family, even a personal message with the gift.

Apple appears to have caught on to the fact that digital media, from songs to books, are quickly becoming coque coque samsung a8 huawei p30 like traditional media. Unlike simply giving a book you coque samsung s9liked to a friend, you were forced to follow coque samsung a10 a laborious process for their digital alternatives.

A previous Apple patent filing, which concentrated on selling digital media you already own, coupled with the gifting patent suggests “Apple is seriously looking into how it can make ownership of digital media more like ownership of physical media,” notes TechCrunch’s Darrell Etherington.

The original idea by Apple to tie digital media bought at iTunes to the buyer’s devices was correct at the time. However, we are in a frictionless economy coque iphone 6 now and tech companies live or die by their ecosystem…

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