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iPhone X With USB-C Port Sells For $86,001 on eBay
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This is kind of an expected outcome of extreme income inequality. The phrase, “the rich get richer and the poor get poorer”, holds true, especially when the richest devote considerable resources/influence to get laws and regulations changed to concentrate more wealth to themselves. You end up with a small bunch of people who have more money than they know what to do with, buying crazily expensive things to entertain themselves. Great, if you happen to be one of the few near the top.Has anyone noticed how "mad" (crazy) the world is getting? People pay $69,000 for 1 Bitcoin. $86,000 for a modded iPhone X. It simply doesn't make sense, and yet people are doing it! "More money than brains" comes to mind, but if I could get that kinda money for modding something... I might actually give it a shot!
Think about it this way. This is a college kid who probably doesn’t have a ton of money risking 300+ dollars if sold to possibly “finite chance” of getting it to work by hacking a USB C port on it.
Whoever purchased it (most likely Apple or Google/Boston Dynamics ) didn’t purchase it for the phone but for the opportunity to possibly hire this brilliant and genius engineer.
Whoever purchased it (most likely Apple or Google/Boston Dynamics ) didn’t purchase it for the phone but for the opportunity to possibly hire this brilliant and genius engineer.
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This is nothing new. The world has always been full of eccentrics
Agreed... I mean while it's easy to sell the line that 'the rich are getting richer', this is literally an example of a random student pocketing some good coin off the back of some honest work.
My guess is that a mod shop or something has bought the design as they reckon they can sell a few thousand mods at $100+ a piece. What's a lot of cash for an individual with a 9-5 job may not be that much for a business that's looking to score a commercial advantage.
Bang on target!
If the modder simply used a USB-C to Lightning adapter as the heart of the modification, the only benefit to be gained is that you can plug a USB-C cable directly into the iPhone, rather than through the adapter or a USB-C to Lightning cable.
The USB-C to Lightning adapter doesn't allow Thunderbolt connection speeds for data - it can only deliver what Lightning is capable of: USB 2.0 data. It can't deliver faster charging, either. Video output on a Lighting port requires a separate adapter. The adapter signals the iPhone to output video via the data contacts in the Lightning port.
I have a feeling the correct signaling would not be received if someone connected a USB-C Digital AV Multiport adapter (which provides an HDMI port, USB-A port, and a USB-C pass-through port for USB-C-equipped iPads) to a USB-C to Lightning adapter.
So basically, it'll look like a USB-C but behave like a Lightning. That doesn't seem like the kind of modification most people would pay any sort of money for.
I speak for my usage. I use the car, and my desktop to charge my phone. I find that the charges last long enough for my usage. Also, I resent say a car manufacturer adding a wireless charging pad to my car. More electromagnetic waves for a feature I do not want is not my cup of tea. Also, isn't it slower charging? (I could not use a desktop computer if it was not connected by Ethernet
) So, you see, I am a dinosaur One thing, Lightning is INSANE. USB C is where they should be headed. I really hate it when companies reinvent the wheel. OK, maybe for the frst few years, before USB C, lightning was OK. I have a 12 mini. I have no idea if it even has wireless charging as a feature becasue I do not care. Anyways, these are my thoughts and I get what you a re saying also. Maybe in 5 years I will be a wireless fan too
Sorry for the off topic but as an active eBay user I've been scammed more often as a buyer than as a seller. So there's a reason for eBay's policy.
Yep, that’s what I gathered too. It’s basically like plugging a dongle in, but it’s in the phone instead of outside it. Fairly pointless tbh, and anyone with decent electronics knowledge and soldering skills could pull it off.
Get excited about it probably. Most people who obsess about USB-C have probably never tried plugging it in in darkness by feel, whereas it’s quite easy to do that with lightning.
Lightning is the neater and in my opinion more useable connector, but USB-C gets quite a lot of brownie points for being less device / manufacturer centric.
Maybe Apple should open source lightning as a competing standard, although that ship probably sailed 5 years back.
Well I think we should all listen to your gut ?
Do you have a Mac? If so, those thunderbolt ports will help you see an increase of potentially over 20 times of the pathetic speeds seen with lightning. Obviously you need to have the right cables but Apple already offers the right ones with products like the iPad Pro. The only thing missing is a port on the iPhone.
Without being nit picky but the iPhone uses usb 2.0 not 3.0. It was created almost 22 years ago!!!!
Well no. Businesses spend a lot of money on brand integrity and security and so will often buy up fakes or modified products just to keep them off the market. Similar to how they buy up any domain name referring to apple or any apple products.I don't see the point Apple buying it. To learn from the technology?
What possible reason is there for them to do that? There's nothing for them to learn from it.
I dunno either but some people are acting like this is some groundbreaking technical feat that needs to be patented. (Tim Cook probably already has one - he was sick of having to use a separate cable to charge his phone
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It's a near certainty that Apple has iPhone prototypes in their labs that have USB-C ports instead of Lightning ports (they're said to prototype everything). They simply don't think it offers compelling advantages over Lightning, for this use, yet. And Tim Cook very likely charges his phone with MagSafe, not a cable of any flavor.I dunno either but some people are acting like this is some groundbreaking technical feat that needs to be patented. (Tim Cook probably already has one - he was sick of having to use a separate cable to charge his phone
(Personally, I have more Lightning devices to charge regularly than USB-C devices, and I have all manner of cables - Lightning, MicroUSB, USB-C - hanging out, with their other ends plugged into an Anker 10-port charger - along with a Qi charger, so no one type is easier for me to charge than another. The "separate cable" falls flat for me.)
And yeah, I'm amused at the foolish thinking of some here who appear to believe that the reason the iPhone doesn't have a USB-C connector is because Apple can't figure out how to add it.