Apple wins patent for its rotary dialing interface

By Matthew Chung on 12/29/2010 07:27 PDT

You might remember the fake iPod rotary phone design that Steve Jobs joked about during his 2007 keynote. Well, it turns out the folks over at Apple have a sense of humor too as the fruity company has been granted a patent for such a design. In case you missed it, the design allows for devices such as the iPod classic to use its click wheel to control a rotary phone dial, similar to those old-fashioned phones that we used to use back in the day. It’s hard to imagine an iPhone/iPod using this design, but then again, who knows what the future holds?

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Steve Jobs Steve Jobs (1955-2011) was the co-founder of Apple Inc, which he created with Steve Wozniak on April 1 1976. The pair introduced personal computing with the Apple IIe. Steve jobs has also created Pixar, which he sold to Disney in 2006 and Next, a computer company that eventually merged back with Apple. Today's OS X is largely based on the work done at Next. After leaving Apple in 1985, Steve Jobs came back in 1996 in an advisory role and became permanent CEO again in 2000. Under his watch, Apple will execute projects like the iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad.

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