This latest Apple patent application isn't for anything cool or fun like touch screen gestures requiring both hands or anything tablet related. No, this is for an ad-supported OS that could make an operating system either entirely or partially funded by advertisements, meaning free to the end user.

While such a scheme might make business heads whir, the idea of a computer that features "visual or audible" advertisements that disable "one or more functions while the advertisement is being presented," sounds like user hell. We can just imagine writing really starting to come together, you're in the zone and the words are simply flying out of you, when all of a sudden the keyboard ceases working and up pops a cheesy Mentos commercial. And all your inspiration is gone.

Count us out, Steve-o.