Take your cable with you. Simple.
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The connectors offered through third parties will be cheaper. I was referring to 3rd parties. Apple's prices will probably stay consistent for the next 12 months.
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Apple Meeting With Accessory Makers to Promote Lightning Integration
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Take your cable with you. Simple.
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The connectors offered through third parties will be cheaper. I was referring to 3rd parties. Apple's prices will probably stay consistent for the next 12 months.
I'm wondering if it could be one of the reasons Apple wants to implement this restriction. Might be a quality control issue. Cheap Chinese cables might cause poor data reception or even possibly frying your Apple device. Since they use adaptive technology, one of these cables could send power to a data line instead of a power rail frying the device.
I do think now that they also want to licence out this lightning adapter to make additional revenue. But nothing different then what most licences do already with software or hardware.
Apple has patented the hell out of it They will get import bans against all these pirates, and sue them into oblivion if any of them try to Samsung a Lightning connector.
Mitt will come down HARD on China if they refuse to play ball.
Tighter controls are good. My co-worker went through 2 perfectly good iPhones before he realized it was the cheap $5 cable he bought from Amazon that was causing the issue.
On top of what many have said here... The whole "security" thing with these chips is horribly misleading. The only thing "secure" about it, from what I know, is to help prevent data corruption. If anything at all, it should be labeled differently than a "security feature".
That's your opinionmy opinion, on the other hand, is that this is a great innovation that will provide flexibility for the future of my iPhone 5. The ability to reassign pins to fulfill different needs is a great convenience that will ensure that any device that is released under Apple's standards will work well. This means that new technologies that the 30pin wouldn't be able to support, and that Apple doesn't currently anticipate, will still be able to take advantage of the lightning port on iOS devices because of the pin assignment features. I, for one, think that is a brilliant move on Apple's part.
Well looks like you're stuck without a cable, out $30 dollars, or you're going to brick your phone. Good luck.
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Cables are only $19 btw, not $30.
Where did you read this?
You don't need to read anything.
USB 2.0 on a 2010 MBP can read and write just over 34 MB / second (per USB port, measured with two external hard drives). Therefore anything that is slower than 34 MB / second is not limited by USB 2.0, but by something else.
Because if they do, they can make sure that their devices yield the best possible User Experience. Supermarket cables? Do you buy food at Wall-Mart too?
No. It means that Apple is protecting those companies who want to go about producing a compatible device the "right" way under the "Made For iDevice" program.
You have to give a company an incentive (IE protection from 3rd party knockoffs) to go about doing something the right way. The way Apple has been rolling out Lightning does just that.
Yes... but if it was USB 3.0 and future iterations of the iPhone/iDevices has faster storage then the Lightning cable I bought today/go free with my iPhone today will be useful for my next 3 or 4 generations of iDevices.
Also the irony of calling a "same as the last decade" speed cable; "Lightning", makes me
You're aware that the MacBook Pros and Airs have USB3, right?
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Quality.
suggested news title revision
Apple Meeting With Accessory Makers to Promote Lightning Royalty fees
like for Thunderbolt, we won't see any cheap accessories coming...
Why should Apple allow anybody to make cheap accessories that will ruin the User Experience for their customers?
Apple is doing exactly the right thing. They invented a revolutionary new port connector, and they deserve to be compensated.
Ok, it's $19 dollars. Apple is not ripping you off. Seriously, stop whining. Here are the factory prices from China; I sell iPhone 5 cables. These are their prices for me.
100pcs: $7.20 ea
1000pcs: $5.60 ea
2000pcs: $5.12 ea
5000pcs: $4.80 ea
I remember one time someone put a link to a inexpensive Chinese made cable. Unfortunately it was going from a analog to a digital interface without a D/A converter. It would of not worked. Wish I could of remember the exact cable though.
Where do you get this idea your going to brick your phone??! About as stupid as bricking your mac cause you used a non apple usb cable?!!!! News flash , all those of hundreds and hundreds of docks out there..... Do not use apple cables.... It's just connecting a phone, not flashing a device !
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How is ones user experience ruined by connecting a phone to a connector?!?! Geez