Apple files anti-theft patent that uses accelerometers to detect theft-like movement

What kind of movement does a theft entail. Apple's in the process of figuring that out, today filing a patent application for a, "acceleration-based theft detection system for portable electronic devices." Apple pickers: you've just been put on watch. According to the patent filing, said device would activate an alarm of some form after determining, "whether a theft condition is present." It'll apparently figure that out based on the accelerometer built into many of Apple's mobile devices - the same thing that figures out which way you're holding your phone.

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