I'm still confused why everyone thinks these adapters are a cash grab by Apple.
When you buy an iPhone 5, you sign a contract with a carrier worth an average of $1446 to them before any fees, overages or add-ons. I'm not sure about the other carriers, but AT&T also charges a one-time, $36 "upgrade" fee. Let's say that Apple grosses an average of $649 per phone and each phone sale results in add-on sales of Apple branded adapters or cables averaging $58. So even if Apple is making an 85% margin on these adapters and cables, the profit derived from them represents just over 2% of the revenue booked per iPhone 5 purchase between the carrier and Apple.
Why are the hundreds of millions of dollars worth of "upgrade" fees collected by the carriers in the past few weeks not attracting the ire of the public? At least I get something tangible from Apple for the dollars I fork over to them.
It was my understanding that iPhones sold in the EU do indeed come with one MD820ZM/A Lightning to Micro USB adapter. Is this not actually true?
Many people will never require a Lightning to 30-pin dock connector adapter, and it would have been incredibly wasteful to include one with every Lightning device. When Apple omitted the optical drive from the MacBook Air, everyone freaked out that they were forcing everyone who bought one to also buy a $79 Apple USB SuperDrive. After some initial adjustment, most people never missed it though. For the most part, there are very few accessories for which these adapters make sense.
I think folks will be even more annoyed when 3rd party lightning accessories become available that have no support for 30-pin dock connector devices, and there is no adapter to convert in the other direction.
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The 4G frequency won't be a-changin' for the foreseeable.
The ultra-violet images are here to stay ( despite future attempts to solve by software)...
You've got a strong grasp of the sensationalist media headlines, but not much else.
Apple offers two handset models that cover no less than 8 LTE bands between them, and you think there's a problem because they may lack eventual support for 2 carriers in the UK whose LTE networks have not even been rolled out yet?
And of course stray light striking a camera sensor is a problem that is here to stay until we manage to change the laws of physics. Shame on Apple for not using their billions to have those laws amended.