Disney to offer streaming ESPN on iPods?

Posted November 13, 2006 at 01:55 PM by Doug Berger

Section: Apple, Audio, Online Music/Video, Portable Video

Apple just loves messing with us by filing for patents, don’t they?  Just when the rumors about the touch screen iPod were floating around, they filed a patent for a touch screen mobile device.  Now, just when the wireless iPod rumors are gettin’ hot ‘n heavy, we learn that Disney - which is largely owned by Steve Jobs - filed a patent for wireless streaming of realtime ESPN content to devices like the iPod.  That’s right, they actually mentioned the iPod, by name, in their patent application.

“For example,“ the company wrote, “systems and methods of the present disclosure may be applied to other mobile electronic devices, such as PDAs, pagers, etc., and to other handheld electronic devices, such as, e.g., the iPod digital music player (available from Apple Computer, Inc.).“

Now if that’s not foreshaddowing, then maybe I’m missing something.  In other news, Mobile ESPN failed just a few weeks ago.

Read [AppleInsider]