It hasn't happened yet, but in today's litigious atmosphere, it certainly could. And although many hardware manufacturers, like Sony, have their own music labels, there would be nothing to prevent Sony from suing a rival manufacturer if the company's own music devices were the only ones permitted to play Sony-copyrighted music. The Music IOS API is designed to offer streamlined access to digital music content, and developers can use the platform to develop applications for any hand-held device. GPS phones released - More and more consumer devices are sporting GPS positioning features, which allow users to navigate their way with the use of downloadable maps beamed to their GPS device, based on their current location. Now, Benefon and Genimap, both based in Finland, have announced that the world's first personal navigation phone Benefon Esc with GPS-positioning capabilities and mobile maps is now available for test users and developers.
Users can also conveniently exchange location information with services and other users.
In addition, the phone is resistant to spray water and sports a casing reinforced with stainless steel, making it just the thing for hikes and rides in the wilderness, which is where having access to a GPS can become very important, if not life-saving. OS X is built on a BSD Unix platform, which will help provide greater stability for an operating system some have considered over-prone to crashing in the past. This is accomplished through a memory system called Darwin, which allows multitasking but ensures that applications cannot steal allocated memory from each other - thereby preventing crashes. The video system, called Aqua, is based on Adobe PDF technology, ensuring a very sharp screen display. In fact, many of Adobe's most popular fonts are included in the system.