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Apple Looking To Offer iTunes Offline

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Like many concepts of an online service being made available without the use of an internet connection, the proposal from Apple to investigate methods of enabling their flagship service to operate offline could be laughed off as impossible for such a signal-dependent platform, though it appears they may have a method planned that would enable them to make money despite a lack of connection.

itunes_offline_purchase_patentsThe recently-discovered patent filing (U.S. Patent #8417575), reported by 9to5Mac, is for ’on-device offline purchases using credits’, a method which enables the company to sell music to iTunes members offline, through storing recommended tracks ‘locally’ and only and ‘unpacking’ them once a purchase is complete, meaning that the already downloaded content can be taken on in spite of a lack of connectivity at the time.

This of course leads to issues such as using storage for content that is not actually owned by the user (and possibly not having a choice in removing it from the system), though Apple claim to defend this problem on the case of automatically detecting how much free space is on the device and allocating a number of songs based on this.

Another potential problem would be spending the money without a connection, though the possible feature is only suggested (and allowed) for those that have credit in their iTunes accounts, with the amounts presumably being securely noted and formally ’paid’ the next time a user is connected.

While it is clearly recognised that the device in question running the music would clearly need such factors to operate, along with an internet connection at some points before and after the service, will this plan set many users paranoid that Apple are looking to control their purchases even when iTunes isn’t technically in operation?


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