I know. If the word "alleged" must be used (and it's hardly the best one for the context), the headline should have read: "Photos of Apple's Alleged New Dock Connector." The adjective is modifying the wrong noun.
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Alleged Photos of Apple's New Dock Connector
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I know. If the word "alleged" must be used (and it's hardly the best one for the context), the headline should have read: "Photos of Apple's Alleged New Dock Connector." The adjective is modifying the wrong noun.
Not that anyone cares.
What on earth leads to you that conclusion? One photo of the product disassembled?I'm sure you're right though. I'm sure Apple is replacing their decade-old dock connector for the first time with something far inferior. Good post!
And how is that? How is any connector they come up with that pushes in and pulls out better than MagSafe? Here's a hint: Its not.
Because that makes any sense...
Good grief. Do you really need to ask this question? Apple will be mass producing hundreds of millions of this new connector. Trust me. There will be no Thunderbolt. There will be, however, USB. And people with USB 3 (like, new Mac owners, for example) will take advantage of sync/backup speeds more than 5 times faster than today. Is that not good enough for you?
Could possibly have something to do with Thunderbolt being located on less than 3% of iPhone buyers home computers. That's just a guess though.
Its just ROTFL hilarious how many people have ventured the thought that Apple might produce a weak, problematic connector. They've had a DECADE to redesign this connector and go through prototype iterations. I think there is a chance it might be GOOD...
See above.
I'm still hoping its MagSafe. MagSafe is the only sensible power connector on the market, anywhere.
There will be. And it will probably cost $5 less than just buying a new cable.
Regardless, The massive iOS device accessory market is due for a reboot. Business wise, its brilliant to suddenly make a decade of accessories obsolete and need replacing.
You might want to change the z in your name to an s. Just saying.
Reversible doesn't have to mean the same pins on both sides, with some interesting and Apple like engineering involved. And would fit with earlier reports of 16 pins in the connector.
I will not expect for the ThunderBolt cos it is so expensive. The size of ThunderBolt chip is too large to put it into the mobile device.
No. And you miss the point.
It's expected for one set of volume buttons on the side. One camera. But would you enjoy watching a TV with one set of front facing speakers longer than the other? Would you like a car with 10 inch speakers on the passenger side and 6 inch on the drivers side?
I said "personally," so that meant my preference is to have speaker grilles that match. And I can pretty much guarantee that Steve wouldn't have allowed it, ASSUMING this is the real deal. He obsessed about the small things. For example "rubber-banding" in iOS. Small detail, big picture.
It's the small details that make the iPhone great. I don't want to see that lost without Steve's obsession and attention to detail.
No, see, you don't understand. Its YOU who loves the big reveals. Apple only cares about selling as many of its revealed items as possible.
Keeping products secret as long as possible, and revealing them dramatically, while people like you lean close to the screen to see what happens, its part of what drives the massive sales, as well as the culture surrounding their company.
However, Apple has learned that they actually sell MORE devices when legitimate information leaks early. In dribs and drabs, day by day, until almost all is known before the "big reveal" which is basically just explanatory at that point. Or have you not paid attention to the massive product launches of the last 3 years?
They do far better when the hype machine has legitimate info to go on....the hype machine builds and builds without Apple spending a dime, or doing anything at all......all they have to do is make sure the leaks happen slowly, bits at a time, like bread crumbs leading up to their launch event.
The power of that compared to an utterly unknown, unrumored, secretive product is night and day, and Apple first learned this in 2010. If more was known about the iPad 1, it would have had a faster adoption....that same year was the iPhone 4 "fiasco" which was the best thing that could have ever happened to them.
man, Apple parts are leaking left and right. what's up with that? I want to keep the element of the surprise!
yeah I came to post this. Remember when the new iphones were mysteries up until at least a day or two before announcement? How do people get these parts ahead of time?
I dunno... that new Apple connector looks pretty solid. Very slick and seamless.
Compared to this:
but they aren't speaker grills. One is a speaker grill and one is a microphone grill. It's the small things.
Again, missed the point.
They don't F'n match. That's my point. Will it prevent me from getting it? Hell no. I'm not arguing semantics here, I'm just stating that my PREFERENCE is that the F'n holes match.
If it makes you feel like the bigger person, I'm happy to let you win the point.
That USB port looks dodgy. The USB logo is normally on the other side of that port where the joint doesn't go down the middle.
Considering that there appears to be a chip in the phone end of the connector, I could conceive of Apple doing what they did with the 3rd and 4th generation iPods, where you had the option of USB or Firewire, but in this case USB or Thunderbolt. I would love to see Thunderbolt as an option, especially if the storage on the phones continues to grow.
It is also possible that the chip is to allow the 8/9 pins to do some of the same things being done with the 3, like HDMI, VGA, Component, Composite, etc.
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It is also possible that the chip is to allow the 8/9 pins to do some of the same things being done with the 3, like HDMI, VGA, Component, Composite, etc.
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Something tells me within the next few models, we'll hear "Thunderbolt Capable" for the iPhone.
The connector doesn't really look water-proof (or resistant) but that's a pretty interesting guess.
I've been trying to figure out something that the current iPhone doesn't have that could be a new hardware feature that would be somewhat killer and isn't just a spec bump (bigger screen, faster processor, more memory, faster data, etc..). Water-resistant would be great; waterproof even better.
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