I'm going to laugh when apple changes something to render these cables worthless.
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I'm going to laugh when apple changes something to render these cables worthless.
I'm going to laugh when apple changes something to render these cables worthless.
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Great. Another overpriced cable option.
(sorry, I just can't get excited about another opportunity to be ripped off)
Doesn't this thing have a crypto chip on it?
I'm going to laugh when apple changes something to render these cables worthless.
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I know the cable business a bit, those 8 feet of cable would probably cost an extra 20 cents and for the manufacturing process it takes maybe a few seconds more to make, whether it's 1 foot or several, total cost makes it only 20-30 cents more expensive.
So with markup it should really only be a few dollars more - But I guess that's what it's about in business: Making things seem like they should be expensive when they shouldn't. Take phone companies: Why does it cost me tonnes extra to make a call overseas on my landline, when on Skype it costs the same amount of money to call someone anywhere in the world? We've been bullied into thinking it costs more money to call someone overseas than it does within the nation, when it straight up doesn't.
Finally a black cable! I can use that in my car, instead of the white Apple ones which are equivalent to putting a sign on the car that says "Break into me, there might be expensive iDevices in me!"
Apple should sell black charge cables for this reason!
Wow. Someone still clinging to the myth that the cable has crypto hardware in it. The chip was identified a few weeks ago. It has error correction hardware, and a few K of ROM. The most likely use of that ROM is for a device identifier that will allow the phone to identify the class of device the connector is attached to, thus letting it determine the pin-out configuration it needs to use on its end. (And that assumes that it's not an active negotiation scheme.)