{"id":51433,"date":"2012-05-31T12:01:47","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T10:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=51433"},"modified":"2012-05-31T12:44:16","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T10:44:16","slug":"apple-looking-for-idevice-designer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/51433-apple-looking-for-idevice-designer.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple looking for iDevice designer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Apple\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342717-Apple-inc\">Apple<\/a> has posted a job listing for a lead engineer to focus on connector designs.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s employment listing states that the position is for a \u2018Connector Design Engineer\u2019, and the tasks will involve being \u201cresponsible for managing multiple connector designs and developments in support of the iPod product lines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The post also elaborates, saying that it will: \u00a0\u201cinvolve adaptation of existing connectors or complete new designs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This could suggest that Apple is looking to change their long-running 30-pin dock connector which has become a staple of the company\u2019s iPod and iPhone range.<\/p>\n<p>A change in the connector design has been rumoured for quite some time now, and the listing implies that the new design process could be in motion.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_51439\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/51433-apple-looking-for-idevice-designer.html\/attachment\/ipod-connecter\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-51439\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51439\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51439\" title=\"ipod connecter\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/ipod-connecter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/ipod-connecter.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/ipod-connecter-100x66.jpg 100w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/ipod-connecter-185x123.jpg 185w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/ipod-connecter-250x166.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-51439\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apple&#39;s current 16-pin connector.<\/p><\/div>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/jobs.apple.com\/index.ajs?BID=1&amp;method=mExternal.showJob&amp;RID=92412&amp;CurrentPage=2\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Jobs<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple searching for someone to develop new connection hardware<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340900,"featured_media":50227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[605,12105,12101,12103,12107],"class_list":["post-51433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-apple-connector","tag-apple-engineer","tag-idevice","tag-ipod-connector"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51433"}],"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\/340900"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}