Lighting will eventually be USB-C

[BluAffiliate]

Could this conspiracy be true?

 

[Gwendolini]

Which conspiracy?

Apple will might move to USB-C for their iOS devices one day, even though with Lightning they have certain advantages with licenses and such and can control the chips inside the cables/adapters. With USB-C there is no "need" for Apple certified USB-C cables.

 

[Justin_Kemp]

Both of them are totally different, so i did not find any conspiracy here.

 

[throAU]

I suspect you'll still end up with a USB-C to lightning cable (at least for some time yet), as lightning peripherals are everywhere.

 

[Gav2k]

Wind back the clock and the same stuff was said about the old iPod connector. Thing is.... it never happened!

 

[throAU]

Wind back the clock and the same stuff was said about the old iPod connector. Thing is.... it never happened!

True, however lightning (its replacement) still enabled apple to do license checking on third party peripherals. USB-C i do not believe has the DRM in it.

We'll see soon enough i guess.