Apple Music Patent of the Day: An Apple patent application from 2009 has just been released, and it may give some clues about the company’s rumored cloud-based music service. Amazon and Google may have beaten Apple to the punch, but Steve Jobs’ secret weapon appears to be a method of making streaming faster and smoother by syncing partial songs.
The patent diagram shows a “sync partial music” checkbox in iTunes, and the patent itself explains that syncing the beginning of each song would mean no delay between hitting play and hearing music. It would be “seamless and invisible” to the user, and it’d take up a lot less space on your iDevice than full MP3 files do.
A patent is no guarantee that something like this will actually come to market, but it would certainly give Apple something the other guys don’t have.
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