If you had read any of my other posts, you would have seen that I agree with you.
In other words, I was joking.
Whoops, my apologies
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Another Image of New Lightning Cable with Reversible USB Connector Surfaces
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Whoops, my apologies
Oh well, I hope it's informative to someone else!
OMG, this is amazing! A USB connector that will plug in either way. My mind is racing with the possibility of how much time I'll save...
Let's see... I probably attach a USB device to some other device about twice a week on average. About half the time, I accidentally try to plug it in upside down. So, once a week I have to stop and flip the plug over. That extra step (flipping the plug over) probably wastes 2 seconds. So...
2 seconds x 52 weeks in a year = 104 seconds! Oh my, I'm going to save almost 2 minutes over the course of an entire year because of this revolutionary new USB connector!
Be still my beating heart!
Mark
Let's see... I probably attach a USB device to some other device about twice a week on average. About half the time, I accidentally try to plug it in upside down. So, once a week I have to stop and flip the plug over. That extra step (flipping the plug over) probably wastes 2 seconds. So...
2 seconds x 52 weeks in a year = 104 seconds! Oh my, I'm going to save almost 2 minutes over the course of an entire year because of this revolutionary new USB connector!
Be still my beating heart!
Mark
What, 2 years after they have been commercially available to the public?
No.
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Yeah, because we all know hundreds of people who have to get a new phone because the battery no longer holds a charge and requires 2 or 3 charges a day /s
You know..... these people.....who'd rather get a new $700+ phone instead of paying $50 to get a new battery fitted.
People come up with a lot of excuses why they need the newest phone out. The fact is, they just want the newest phone. Other people just want something to complain about.
For the love of god please, Apple, don't patent this.
I want all my cables to do this now.
Apple applied for it.
http://m.ibtimes.com/apple-reversib...trations-according-patent-application-1638452
Rather than just 'No' you could have padded out your post with some facts like these...
"However, as many posters have pointed out, these reversible Type-A plugs have been around for quite some time and patent applications for them extend back as far as 2004. Apple's patent is simply more specific to their particular implementation and manufacturing processes."
Which just happen to be in the post you were quoting, but you chose to edit them out for some reason.
Yeah I'm behind the idea of the type C connector, just not the execution. It looks physically a lot like micro-usb which in my opinion is the absolute worst connector type that has ever existed, and I've worked with the 50+-pin centronics monstrosities. Those were pretty terrible to work with but at least they were sturdy as poop. Micro-USB, thanks to its design where there's a little tiny tongue in the chassis part, fails when you just look at it the wrong way. And the connector is just as flimsy; it just won't stand up to the repeated abuse of a regular 12-year old girl.
That is quite unlike Lightning, which was designed with such things in mind. Some people have issues with the strain relief on those cables, sure, but the actual connector part (the bit that goes into the phone) is rock-solid due to its design being so much more elegant.
How embarrassing that Apple did this before USB will with Type C...
P.S: Am I the only one who wonders how that cable will physically fit into ordinary USB slots on laptops, etc. ?
Absolutely not! I too am just thinking.... sooooooo how am I supposed to use that in ALL my current USB devices then??
Then again this IS Apple and we all now Apple LOVES it's adapters, so expect them to sell an adapter for $30 to use the new cable with all your current devices, or give one away with this cable, but then that would make this cable totally pointless?
The design is compatible with all (properly manufactured to specifications) USB-A receptacles. So just plug it in.
The current one works fine for you? Well this new one will work better. Is it affecting you in any way that Apple is releasing this?
Why can't people just be ok with this cable? Lmao how can this possibly be affecting you in a NEGATIVE way?!
Smh
Unless...the middle connector is flexible. It just needs to move slightly in each direction depending on which way you plug it in. Make the end a bit thinner and it will just slide into the correct position.
3 seconds per person per year adds up to quite a lot of seconds. There's just no reason to have poorly designed connectors these days. It doesn't cost any extra.
Reversible USB was patented back in 2010.
By someone other than Apple.
Apple could have implemented this back then but then they would have had to pay the patent holder so they waited until they came up with their own very slightly different version that they are now trying to patent as a new invention.
We'll have to wait and see if Apple's version in considered different enough to be granted its own patent but except for Apple's not wanting to pay license fees, we could have had this four years ago.
Seems like it would be important to have a little tension on the conductors which a floating circuit board cannot provide. Perhaps it is bonded to the shield somehow.
I really don't understand the issue people have with USB. Are as many fits thrown over polarized AC outlets? At least it's easy to locate a USB plug properly by looking at the logo, unless the jack is vertical, or you're blind.
That's USB connector(s) not a lightning connector.
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD818ZM/A/lightning-to-usb-cable?fnode=3a
I may be confused here, but a lighting cable has a smaller end than a USB connector does but this pic clearly shows two usb ends, suggesting its the same usb cable, with one end just turned upside down to simulate its reversed.
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD818ZM/A/lightning-to-usb-cable?fnode=3a
I may be confused here, but a lighting cable has a smaller end than a USB connector does but this pic clearly shows two usb ends, suggesting its the same usb cable, with one end just turned upside down to simulate its reversed.
I don't know about JFK, but Ricky Ricardo definitely did in Marilyn.
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Good for you! Yaay, you!!!
As of current iOS devices aren't fast enough to even take advantage of USB 3. If the iPhone 6 is fast of enough where it uses the last bit of potential left in USB 2 and can still go faster then they prob will make it USB 3, if it still doesn't use USB 2 to its full potential then what is the point?
Finally this will come out and no surprise that Apple would. Other companies seem to not really care but this is actually quite an innovation since pretty much everyone uses or used a USB cable at some point.
It is comparing the old USB end of a Lightning cable to the new reversible USB end of the Lightning cable. They are just not showing the Lightning end of the cable because the article is just talking about the new USB end of it.
You're confused here, if you're talking about the picture on the MacRumours article which shows the USB end of two *different* cables, the current one, with the usual non-reversible USB connector, and the leaked one which is reversible. That is not two ends of one cable, the caption even says it's a current cable (left) compared to a new cable (right).