Apple iPhone and iPod will stop charging: Warning to all thieves

There has just been a recent patent application from giants Apple which shows that Cupertino really do care about you as the owner of the iPod. This is all about the technology which would invoke a “guardian” recharge circuit which can in fact disable any further charging if the computer or any other re-charger was paired with was unauthorized.

Not going to go into the ins and outs of this patent because you can see it for yourselves below by following the link, but according to Apple this type of limitation would be great and would serve as a deterrent against theft (so watch out thieves it is not worth it). This would obviously be applied to the iPhone and the iPod and probably other handheld rechargeable devices would benefit from it as well. Basically this would turn your iPhone and iPod into a brick, you know a useless device.

Read - Patent Application

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