---

Despite the dreaded announcement that Leopard will be delayed until October (which according to many Apple experts is a first for the company) a couple of new patents were made today by them. The first one refers to a keyboard that replaces the numeric keyboard for the popular click wheel which until now has only been used in iPods.

Although I don’t really see why the numeric keyboard can’t remain (I think that many of us use it), I think that this new functionality will be great for programs like iTunes or other media programs.