See that? It’s a just-awarded patent for an iPad boasting a landscape-oriented dock connector port in addition to the regular port-oriented one.
I’m sure there’s at least a few of you guys out there who are looking at that line-drawing and clawing strips of flesh out of your face in frustration: “ARGH… WHY DIDN’T APPLE RELEASE THAT?” Sorry, guys. The Department of Redundancy Department called, and they wanted their port back.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
15 responses to “Apple Almost Released The iPad With Two Dock Connectors”
This is old. We knew about this months ago…
It would have been good if Apple had released the ipad with 2 dock connectors. It would have been a handier tool
Snore… This is an old patent. I hope you didnt get paid to write this crap. I wanted it on the iPad 2 seriously at least 6 months ago. Now I’ve got one I see how it isn’t needed. Side dock will not happen.
No, I’m looking at that and thinking ‘Thank goodness they didn’t release that.’ Why have another port to fill with bag detritus just to make the 7 people that want to use their iPad docked in landscape mode happy. What would be better is a dock keyboard that is dock-free and just a holder with a blue tooth keyboard. However, my girlfriend would kill for that second port.
I personally think “dual docking port” designs are BLOODY AWFUL! I HATE any “ports” on the side of devices, ESPECIALLY beautiful thin bits of engineered metal! Why would you want a gaping hole in the side? I find it annoying enough that my iMac has that useless “optical drive” thing, let alone when Apple decided to hit it with the chisel a second time, for an “SD card slot” :-)
Your hands will constantly be touching “the long thin hole” on the side. Ugh, UGH I say!
Looks more like 30 pin and a SIM tray…
/Fred
Bye-bye Cult of Mac. Old stories like this one, and non-Apple crap like the drug deal turned murder have made this site not worth bothering with any more. I was even willing to overlook the Apple being 3rd in US smart phones sales with no growth in a year yet being hailed as reigning supreme. It looks like CoM has decided to search the Google news archives for iPhone and iPad and turn anything found into a story here. I have gizmodo for my irrelevant and sensationalist tech news thank you very much.
Completely agreed. It seems to be a case of “Comment on whatever is in the news and somehow bring Apple into it.” just for linkbait. I am done with this psuedo-news site.