Apple getting serious about MacBook Pro with integrated graphics tablet and iPhone charger
One patent doesn’t prove Apple is making a device, but a whole series of them suggests we really could see a MacBook Pro you can wirelessly charge your iPhone on, while you sketch with your finger.
Apple does apply for countless patents every year, and a very great number get granted. Often it just means that Apple is exploring an idea and does not mean that there will ever be a product.That’s still the case with the newly-granted “Device having integrated interface system.” But as well as presenting a very tantalizingly appealing MacBook Pro design, this patent has something else.
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