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Chipotle’s new application that would let iPhone users order burritos dissapeared quickly from the ol’ app store this week. But, it promises a trip back soon and it makes possible a previous Apple patent idea from 2007.

Jeremy Horwitz over at iLounge writes that the iLounge crew was deciding on buying the Chipotle app when it was removed from the store.

“We and iLounge readers had noticed that the app had for some unknown reason disappeared from the App Store shortly after being released,” Horwitz wrote.

TechCrunch got a hold of Sequence, the company building the Chipotle app, who provided this about the app: “The current goal is to have it back on the App Store in two weeks, along with some cosmetic changes (many of the user reviews that were left while the app was still available had some complaints regarding the user experience).”

This instantly reminded me of an Apple patent made public in 2007 about a way to order, say, a cup of joe from a nearby Starbucks. From the Forbes article on that patent filing: “In an application with the U.S. Patent Office published on Dec. 20, the Cupertino, Calif.-based computer and gadget company described a wireless system that would allow customers to place an order at a store using a wireless device such as a media player, a wireless personal digital assistant or a cellphone.”

The biggest question now is not when the Chipotle app will return to iPhones, but what companies will follow suit and if the same applications will be also available for phones running other operating systems.

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