[ctdonath2]

It’s a patent. Businesses often patent ideas they will never use, just so they can control the idea and profit from variations & use by others.

[Calvin Locke]

I'd deny the patent because it's not so different from that car device that forces the driver to have blow into a device before enabling the ignition.

Wasn't there one [code entry device] for car loans for people with bad credit too?

[9thLife]

There’s that. It could actually be a way of preventing it from being done. But I gather it’s most likely to ensure Apple’s first rights of refusal on something they see as possible or likely— something that the marketplace might deem a logical extension of the technology.

[DiogenesLamp]

It’s a patent. Businesses often patent ideas they will never use, just so they can control the idea and profit from variations & use by others.

They ought not be allowed to do that. If they don't develop the idea, they oughten to stand in the way of others who will.

[tacticalogic]

Businesses often patent ideas they will never use

What's disturbing is that they had the idea in the first place.

[CommerceComet]

It’s a patent. Businesses often patent ideas they will never use, just so they can control the idea and profit from variations & use by others.

Why do I see the federal government jumping all over this and mandating it for all people who are enrolled in ObamaCare? I can see it now:

Thank you, Mr. Johnson for your latest upload of personal health data. We have scheduled you for a meeting with the End-of-Life Transition Panel for 3:00 tomorrow. Do not be late.