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now we’re fairly certain that Apple and friends just do these patents
for their own entertainment, to keep rumor mongers like us guessing and
to publish uninteresting doodles to a mass audience, but they’ve got a
new one for our dissection, and there’s no use us quitting now. This
time around it’s nothing incredibly impressive, but a patent in regards
to ESPN’s mobile services has been unveiled, and it specifically makes
mention of the iPod as a possible streaming delivery platform of sport scores and videos. Of course, this could just be ESPN covering all of its bases before the launch of its (ill-fated) Mobile ESPN,
but with the incredible level of chumminess between Apple and Disney
these days, we wouldn’t put such a thing past ‘em — and if we can
squeeze a WiFi iPod rumor out of the sitch, all the better.