{"id":47018,"date":"2012-04-03T08:46:37","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T06:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=47018"},"modified":"2012-04-03T08:47:36","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T06:47:36","slug":"apple-working-on-ios-game-controller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/47018-apple-working-on-ios-game-controller.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple working on iOS game controller?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Apple\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342717-Apple-inc\">Apple<\/a> is rumoured to be working on a video games controller for use with the iPhone and iPad.<\/p>\n<p>This is according to <em>AnandTech<\/em>, who mentioned the previously unknown controller in its iPad review.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know of an internal Apple project to bring a physical controller to market, but whether or not it will ever see the light of day remains to be seen,\u201d the site wrote. \u201cAs smartphones and tablets come close to equalling the performance of current game consoles, I feel like the controller problem must be addressed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No other details were forthcoming, but Apple has previously <a title=\"Patently Apple\" href=\"http:\/\/www.patentlyapple.com\/patently-apple\/2010\/04\/whoa-apple-reveals-amazing-gaming-accessories-in-the-works.html\">applied for patents<\/a> related to gaming controllers.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at: <a title=\"Boy Genius Report news site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2012\/04\/02\/apple-reportedly-working-on-a-video-game-controller-for-ios-devices\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boy Genius Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple may be working on a game controller for iOS devices as a touch screen alternative<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":29938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[10374,605,10372],"class_list":["post-47018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-anandtech","tag-apple","tag-game-controller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47018"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47034,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47018\/revisions\/47034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}