BRIEF: Apple Planning a Wireless Sync?

[Exosion]

I thought this is something to be brought to attention. Apple must have something up their sleeves.

UPDATE: I hex'd a few files in the framework and there are quite a few references to a foreign device. Now THIS get's me excited!

UPDATE 2: To quote antipico (another member here at IPTF), this is for those not excited about this saying that it'd be a slower sync:

I don't know about your Wi-Fi LAN connection speed but far as I know iPod Touch supports 802.11b/g Wi-Fi that can go up to 128Mbit/s and as long as your computer supports transfer rate that fast it should be anything else but slow. That's also way faster than USB. Transferring files through LAN is by far the fastest solution. So that shouldn't be a problem. Syncing an album or two shoudn't take longer a few seconds with transfer rate that quick. Of course there's more in the sync than just transferring the file but I'd still say that it shouldn't take longer than a minute.

I can leave my ipod download big files with ctorrent through night and still have battery remains left in the morning. So why would a 20-30 min sync session (it's not gonna take that long anyway) drain your battery? I've spent much longer times surfing the net with Safari.

About "being in the range of your iTunes". Many WLan stations have range of hundreds of meters. Mine is by a second floor window and I can walk a long way down the street and still be in connect to my internet.

And again about song removal. I own thousands of CD:s and therefore I have plenty of high quality mp3:s that take alot of space from my iPod. Many times i've come to a situation where i've had to remove albums from my iPod in order to get new ones in. Might as well do this outside of my house sitting on a bench without having to go inside.

He/She is 100% correct too. And also, an off topic, those claiming that wireless electricity is impossible, stop saying that because it's already done and there's products on the market that charge your ipod wirelessly [I OWN ONE]. I've done even deeper research on the framework and I would guess it has something to do with sharing files with other devices and syncing with an itunes library that is connected to some sort of network. Basically, what I could vision, is you'd have to buy (of course...) some device or something that gives your itunes a special name or ID and publishes that on the web through apple and then the ipod could sync it from anywhere as long as it has wifi. Now grant it, this is my guess based on the files inside and I could be completely off, but I would imagine it's something that would allow you to sync your ipod on the go.

[Anonymouslyanonymous]

hm... only time will tell.

[ZunePod]

I hope they do Bluetooth sync also.

I bet Apple could do Bluetooth and WiFi sync simultaneously.

Is there any other file transfer methods (over-the-air)

[manutdfan539]

Wow... I hope so, that would take a lot of hassle out of the iPod.

[ZunePod]

Originally Posted by manutdfan539

Wow... I hope so, that would take a lot of hassle out of the iPod.

How so?

[Unterleibdynamo]

holy crap!

[Acdc695969]

That would be pretty sweet!

[Ryan]

Why?

Usb or wifi... wifi would take... 10 times longer?

Also, no charging while you sync.

If it was "MobileWirelessCharge.framework" then i would get excited...

[iFlake]

i bet the software they are going to release that allows us to sync through the wireless wont be less than 50 us$ !! cuz they never made something cheap :S and easy

[binaj]

yea because mobile wireless charge is going to happen