Like Apple once did with Xcode and Xgrid, it wants to leverage all the processors you have across your Mac, iPhone, and iPad and make them work together for you when you need more processing power.
The screen you’re reading this on is part of a very powerful computing device. Yet the odds are that shortly you’re going to put this down and pick up a different device that if it isn’t as powerful, is still pretty close.
We all pop our iPhones in our pockets or purses, we all put our iPads down on a desk or in a bag, as we open up our Macs or MacBook Pro machines. Maybe those devices are still doing some work for us, but Apple wants them to do more.
“Peer-to-peer distributed computing system for heterogeneous device types,” a new US patent, describes what is basically distributed computing. Apple itself used to offer distributed processing to speed up producing apps within Xcode, but now it wants to bring it to us all.
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