And guess what, 5 million+ people bought the phone over the first weekend anyways. Why shouldn't they make money off it? Amazing how people act like corporations shouldn't be in business to make money. Its the handout mentality of this day and age. If you don't like it, don't buy the phone. Plain and simple.
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Apple's Lightning Connector Uses Adaptive Technology to Dynamically Assign Pin Functions
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And guess what, 5 million+ people bought the phone over the first weekend anyways. Why shouldn't they make money off it? Amazing how people act like corporations shouldn't be in business to make money. Its the handout mentality of this day and age. If you don't like it, don't buy the phone. Plain and simple.
Well, they probably have other ways to make even more money.
But it really depends on what they want to do, where they want to go. Lightning is probably a necessary next step for them to evolve out of the aging 30-pin connector.
The high cost is just for the initial batches. Price will come down eventually.
But it really depends on what they want to do, where they want to go. Lightning is probably a necessary next step for them to evolve out of the aging 30-pin connector.
The high cost is just for the initial batches. Price will come down eventually.
Wow
This means that developer's APIs will come to assign currents as you need them. power and/or controls.
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It's amazing to me how "the iPhone is boring" but anything they do differently is "just greedy and let me keep the micro USB. The waaa-mbulance brigade.
This means that developer's APIs will come to assign currents as you need them. power and/or controls.
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It's amazing to me how "the iPhone is boring" but anything they do differently is "just greedy and let me keep the micro USB. The waaa-mbulance brigade.
Can you tell us what killed your sense of humor?
Every interface in the world is incompatible with something, so I'm not sure what it is you're trying to get at. Perhaps you're one of those people that think we should be using a 30-pin connector 20 years from now?
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The connector on almost every mobile device out there is more than a phone charger. That statement alone shows your inability to grasp the situation.
I realize that you also use them to connect to your computer among other things, I'm not stupid. Still, the average consumer (myself included) will just look at this as a smaller phone charger. Sure, it has some little perks and advantages but it's hardly worthy of discussion imho. I didn't mean to stereotype anyone, maybe it's less to do with "Apple fans" than it is to do with techies who care way more about these things than I do. Either way, I did in fact read the article and it's just one of those things I couldn't care less about. Same with the meticulously boring threads about the leaked iPhone back panels that had been showing up on the Internet before the phone's release. Or the new iPhone ear buds. Sure they're nice to see, and perhaps they are better than before, but from the way the commercials and fans(not all, but some that I've seen) are talking about them you'd think Sony announced the Playstation 4 or something.
Actually no it's not. It may be based on PDMI, but Samsung has added their own proprietary tweaks to make it incompatible with the other (admittedly few) devices to use PDMI.
It also means that the phone can do more (faster, longer battery life, blah) with the same form factor, since the new connector takes up much less space than the 30-pin connector.
I Just ordered 3 generic adapters from eBay. We will see if they work or not. I want one for home charging, one for my Audi's multimedia interface (to listen to music in the car and charge the iPhone) and one for charging at th office... :/
dguisinger, thank you for the interesting reply. If this could means faster syncs between my iPhone5 and my PC, it can't happen soon enough for me.
...because Steve Jobs seemed like he wanted to hold on to the 30 pin for as long as he could and they only changed it out of necessity. I did think before I typed, and interpreted the drawing that was posted. I didn't see any real magic going on to justify how moist everyone is getting over this connector.
I'm not sure what kind of accessories people are talking about...
Speaker docks have been made obsolete since AirPlay has found its way into iOS the way it does now. Besides, never really understood why you want to dock your device solely to listen to music. You can't use your phone while it's docked, why on earth would you want to do that when AirPlay over wifi offers the exact same quality wireless?
I use my phone for a 1000 things and listen to music while doing so. Not being able to send a text message or e-mail when listening to music is just plain stupid (to me).
As for charging, the new iPhone wouldn't fit in your old iPhone dock anyway.
Speaker docks have been made obsolete since AirPlay has found its way into iOS the way it does now. Besides, never really understood why you want to dock your device solely to listen to music. You can't use your phone while it's docked, why on earth would you want to do that when AirPlay over wifi offers the exact same quality wireless?
I use my phone for a 1000 things and listen to music while doing so. Not being able to send a text message or e-mail when listening to music is just plain stupid (to me).
As for charging, the new iPhone wouldn't fit in your old iPhone dock anyway.
It seems like it would have been easier to number the pins on the top 1 to 8 and the pins on the bottom 8 to 1 (in the handwritten notes portrayed in the article). Then the mapping makes a lot more sense. Especially since it doesn't matter which way it's inserted.
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I suppose I was mildly impressed when network devices started "sensing" the port needed to swap pins 1 and 3 and 2 and 6, making network crossover cables almost obsolete. Most on this forum probably don't realize that was ever an issue when hooking up devices 'cause now it's "magic".
The problem I see is that, with as thin as the connector is, the internal wires would overlap.
I have dozens of mini-usb connectors which work on a multitude of devices quite well, and they are cheap, plentiful and available from multiple sources.
On the other hand, I have dozens of different 'round' A/C adapters, with at least a half dozen different power plug configurations. If any tangled web needed cleaning up, it's that one.
Well... those USB connectors may be cheap and plentiful for the current use cases, but they don't solve issues when connected to HDMI, DisplayPort, USB3 and newer protocols. Samsung already showed us that their MHL extension over MicroUSB could render some devices incompatible. With more vendors and protocols coming in, it will not be a pretty sight.
As for A/C adaptors, it's an entire worldwide problem on its own. The charging brick uses adaptors to work around it like Lightning anyway.
In any case you can still continue to use your old cables as long as you have 1 iPhone 5 adaptor. On top of that, the base iPhone 5 port will allow you to interface with the newer protocols.
Summary
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iPhone: Smart Phone, Smart Connector
Android: Smart Phone, Dumb Connector
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iPhone: Smart Phone, Smart Connector
Android: Smart Phone, Dumb Connector
This article should have come a while ago. I found this information on other sites and took it as the explanation as to why the adaptor is so expensive and can't work with some audio systems.
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That would also be FireWire and Thunderbolt. Those are really great technologies.
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That would also be FireWire and Thunderbolt. Those are really great technologies.
Summary
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iPhone: Smart Phone, Smart Connector
Android: Smart Phone, Dumb Connector
There is absolutely nothing Lightning can do that USB/MHL can't.
"...to assign pin functions dynamically." Please correct the split infinitive in the headline for this story. It is quite annoying.
They both are connectors but Lighting has a built-in intelligence during connection
hence why its called Smart Connector With your own proprietary tricks to connect to and power assorted protocols, perhaps (Samsung uses its own "techniques" for its MHL over USB implementation, and that's just one vendor). The devices will get confused over who they are plugging with when more companies and protocols join the party. It's not a case of you can do one technically. There are supportability issues in the entire ecosystem over the next 10 years with newer protocols.