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Apple Working on 'Ultra Accessory Connector' for Made for iPhone Program [Updated]
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But the iPhone's headphone jack was axed due to courage, so what is going on here?
Update: As Ars Technica points out, the "Ultra Accessory Connector" is a new name for an existing port that's already used in digital cameras and other accessories.
Apple told Ars Technica that the port has been added to the Made for iPhone program at the request of licensees, not because it is trying to push accessory makers to adopt a new type of connector.
Similarly, sources told The Verge that Apple has no plans of replacing Lightning or using this port on any of its devices -- it will be used as "an intermediary in headphone cables."
Article Link: Apple Working on 'Ultra Accessory Connector' for Made for iPhone Program [Updated]
That's curious. The update was there at least 30 minutes before you posted when post #149 went up:
Did anybody else see the supposed leaked Apple invitation that says "We're coming down to the wire" or something like that. Maybe it has something to do with this.
So the fact that they said they have no plans of using the port on the iPhone just kind of went over your head?
Sadly proprietary connectors = $$$$, hence we will never see usb-C in idevices , greed over user experience .
Yes we have usb-C in macs, with a killing being made on dongles for a few years. The move is about $$$ and not pushing a new standard. If it was about standards idevices would be adopting USB-C.
Yes we have usb-C in macs, with a killing being made on dongles for a few years. The move is about $$$ and not pushing a new standard. If it was about standards idevices would be adopting USB-C.
Apologies for cutting your post down, saving some room on the response.
Oddly enough the only cable I have ever had fail on me in my lifetime is the Lightening cable (within 1 year warranty period).
Lightbulbs I have had my LED lightbulbs for over 7 years, none have failed me yet (quality).
Those audio standards mainly felt with mobile jack/port standards, no one would expect an RCA cable to be affixed to an MP3 player, phone, etc. It did the job due to physical dimensions limitations, this is different from the present single port USB-C that omitting a few pins would shave mm. Compare that to audio mm jack to the two RCA plugs. Those 1/4 plugs were also ridiculous as those were on large audio receivers, again will not work for a mobile device. Besides people still believe they require the best audio equipment to reproduce sound as they can "hear it all." Majority of the people cannot hear past certain frequencies and those who can or believe they can may be imagining certain frequencies. It's okay if you have the money to burn on a perception, I say go for it.
Absolutely, take good care of your gear, buy durable stuff, then waste is reduced. But if you never need replacement cables, then why does having a single, standardized cable matter at all? You use the cable that came in the box - standard connector on one end, proprietary connector on the other. I don't hear many complaints about external HDDs that come with a non-standard miniature connector - as long as there's a USB connector at one end of the cable, all is fine. This whole, perpetual debate is because it's Apple. If only Apple produced PC clones and ran Android, like everyone else.
Having been so dependent on interconnect cables for so much of my work (dozens or even hundreds of cables to record concerts on location), I learned how to treat them so they wouldn't fail me at the wrong moment. And I still made sure to have spares of every cable type, plus adapters to press other cables into service if necessary. I can tell you war stories... Even if I could have standardized on a single cable type (say, 3-pin XLR-M to XLR-F), I'd still need an assortment of lengths from 1 foot to 100+ feet. I'd carry thick, neoprene-jacketed cables with braided shields for stage use, and used lightweight PVC-jacketed cables with mylar foil shields for gear interconnect by my mixer.
Yeah, I was talking about the big, gross, over-built gear of the past, things are so small now that space savings don't matter as much, right? Yet they do. Last post, you were going on about wasted resources. Now, shaving millimeters or fewer gold-plated pins or copper conductors doesn't matter? It all adds up. A 24-pin/12-wire USB-C cable uses 50% more copper than an 8-pin/8-wire cable (assuming the same current-carrying capacity is required). You have those great, low-power LED lamps around the house - do you leave them on because they use so much less power, or do you still turn 'em off when you leave the room?
The cram-more-stuff-into-the-same-space trend hasn't stopped yet. We wouldn't have iPhones if CPUs were still the size of the old Pentiums and PowerPC G5s. Maybe you weren't around for discrete logic - 4 OR gates on an 14-pin DIP, compared to millions of gates and other components on a much smaller smartphone SOC. While there are plenty here who say, "I'd rather have a bigger MacBook with a bigger battery," they'd gladly take a thinner, lighter MacBook if it also delivered the battery life they desired.
Yeah, that pretty much boils it down. Trouble is, the only people who can appreciate a cartoon like that are people who have lived it; people who read engineering journals. End-users have no concept whatsoever. They hear "One connector to rule them all, one connector to bind them..." and they start dancing around like Gollum at the edge of the Cracks of Doom.
"Three standards for the smartphone kings under the sky, seven for the networking lords and their routers of silicon, nine for temporary standards doomed to die..."
