{"id":87220,"date":"2016-03-30T14:14:36","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T12:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=87220"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:01:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:01:29","slug":"forget-all-you-heard-before-apple-patents-the-future-connector-for-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/forget-all-you-heard-before-apple-patents-the-future-connector-for-ipad\/","title":{"rendered":"Forget all you heard before &#8211; Apple patents the future connector for iPad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the guys at<strong> Apple Insider,<\/strong> it seems <strong>Apple<\/strong> has just registered a <strong>new patent<\/strong> for a new connector for the<strong> iPad<\/strong>. It indicates that it may be an evolution of the classic smart connector, which goes from being a single accessory, to a <strong>gadget<\/strong> in which you can connect multiple connectors at any one time &#8211; in other words, plenty of space for your iPhone, your partner\u2019s iPhone, or whatever!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-87221\" title=\"a1\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/03\/a1-568x234.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"568\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/03\/a1.jpg 568w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/03\/a1-256x105.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With this system (as you can see from the images provided), you can get a decent idea of how the <strong>multiple connectors <\/strong>could be joined (let\u2019s also imagine for extras such as keyboard or cameras).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-87222\" title=\"a2\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/03\/a2-568x303.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"568\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/03\/a2.jpg 568w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/03\/a2-256x136.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Apple Insider <\/strong>mentions that this charging technique <strong>consists of virtually unbreakable components<\/strong>, and <strong>great versatility<\/strong>. Let\u2019s hope they\u2019ll find a use for it on other devices, because it sure seems handy!<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/16\/03\/29\/apple-patent-for-stackable-smart-connector-plugs-greatly-improves-ipad-versatility\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Insider<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the guys at Apple Insider, it seems Apple has just registered a new patent for a new connector for the iPad. It indicates that it may be an evolution of the classic smart connector, which goes from being a single accessory, to a gadget in which you can connect multiple connectors at any &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/forget-all-you-heard-before-apple-patents-the-future-connector-for-ipad\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Forget all you heard before &#8211; Apple patents the future connector for iPad&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2040,"featured_media":87223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-87220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329151,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87220\/revisions\/329151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87220"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=87220"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=87220"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=87220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}