Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), has a very big new secret revealed today, after the US company's new plan to use satellites to bring a stunning innovation to its iPhone phones went public.
Satellites are becoming the future
According to the information coming now about the plan of those from Apple, the company would like to use the satellites that revolve around the Earth to give the iPhones new functions that do not exist in any other smartphone now.
The iPhone could benefit from an internet connection thanks to satellites in Earth's orbit and not mobile networks, it could have a much more precise location, or it could communicate more precisely with other iDevices.
"Apple Inc. has a secret team working on satellite technology that the iPhone maker could use for Internet services directly on devices, bypassing the wireless network."
For now, this would be the information regarding some of the objectives of the project in which the Apple company was involved, the aim being to substantially reduce, or even totally, the dependence of phones on mobile networks.
iPhone independent of mobile phone networks
Apple thought of a plan that would give it the opportunity to bring connectivity to iPhones that the classic mobile networks do not offer at the moment, something that is not easy to implement, but which is innovative.
Satellites offer much better coverage than classic mobile phone networks, and this is because they revolve around the Earth and cover almost its entire surface, even if Apple does not have its own network of satellites.
Apple would have to buy access to existing satellites to implement this plan for iPhones, and everything would have to be released in 5 years of development, if the current team is really going to be successful.
The Cupertino, California-based iPhone maker has about a dozen engineers from the aerospace, satellite and antenna design industries working on the project with the goal of rolling out its results within five years, said the people, who asked to not be identified in the internal company discussion. efforts. Work on the project is still early and could be abandoned, the people said, and a clear direction and use for the satellites has not been finalized.”
Of course, the whole plan is very complicated, and Apple will have to make very large investments to put its ideas into practice, but without exploring such a huge change, there would be no chance that it would really be done.
Apple has very big plans, it wants to bring innovations to phones that other manufacturers don't even seem to think about, but everything is very complicated and difficult to put into practice, unfortunately.
