{"id":6829,"date":"2008-04-26T15:05:34","date_gmt":"2008-04-26T15:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/haptic-feedback-may-come-to-iphone.html"},"modified":"2008-04-26T15:05:34","modified_gmt":"2008-04-26T15:05:34","slug":"haptic-feedback-may-come-to-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/haptic-feedback-may-come-to-iphone.html","title":{"rendered":"Haptic Feedback May Come to iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"4\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/iphone1.jpg\" \/>Whether the rumors are true regarding Apple working with Immersion to add <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/snapshots\/snapshots.aspx?Company=Haptic+Feedback\">haptic feedback<\/a> to Apple&#8217;s touchscreen devices is true or not it seems obvious to me that every touchscreen device needs to embrace this tactile feedback mechanism. The way it works is when you press a button the device emits a vibration which is more like the feedback you would get from touching a real key.<\/p>\n<p>I for one have never been a fan of the onscreen keyboard that Apple provides on it&#8217;s cellular phone. Haptic feedback would help and I am sure Apple is exploring adding the technology to its devices as to do otherwise would put the company at a disadvantage in a competitive market.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2008\/04\/26\/apple-looking-to-immersion-for-haptic-technology-on-iphone\/\">engadget<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether the rumors are true regarding Apple working with Immersion to add haptic feedback to Apple&#8217;s touchscreen devices is true or not it seems obvious to me that every touchscreen device needs to embrace this tactile feedback mechanism. The way it works is when you press a button the device emits a vibration which is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,168,172,118],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6829"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}