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One Analyst Thinks the iPhone 8 Will Still Have a Lightning Connector With USB-C Adapter for Europe
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If Apple were listening, they would have introduced USB-C instead of the Lightning port in the first place!
They already have to do that; the onboard microchips only handle bit transfer and ECC - not the underlying protocol. If the cables had to handle the protocol, you'd need new cables to support any new protocols. Try to think a little.
USB-C <-> USB-A cable, instead of a Lightning <-> USB-A cable.
Thats literally all you need to change.
Lightning was implemented in iOS devices roughly 2 years before USB-C was even finalized.
I dunno, most poets live a lot longer than 5 years.
You are wrong, do a little research instead of assuming. You do need new cables to support new protocols but not new iDevices.
That's how Apple produced a new version of the HDMI adaptor for 1080p that was backwards compatible with every lightning device in existence, even those that existed only when the 720p cable was available.
By Apple engineers' words and verifiable with the reporting in Console, the conversions are handled on the cord.
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Lightning's not going anywhere. These Analysts are talking out there you know what.
You're confusing protocol with bandwidth. Older lightning cables did not have the ability to transfer at the rates necessary to support decent 1080p.
Then why is the 1080p adaptor backwards compatible with the iPhone 5 at full resolution?
It's because Apple compresses 1080p video into Airplay codec, transfers it through Lightning to the Adaptor (which can be done over USB2 when compressed), then the adaptor decompresses the video and sends the uncompressed video via HDMI, which supports the higher bandwidth.
You can literally see this happening in Console when you stream video through one of those adaptors.
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I would much rather see a clean break from lightning if there is one. I like the potential USB-C shows when it comes to speed of xfer and increase in power capacities.
Well, if it is compatible with old devices, then I don't see too much of a downside for the consumers, except the initial problems with adapters and replacing old cables.
Using adapters is a pain, but that seems to be the way Apple is going with everything.
what apple need to do is move the new ipads's to USB type-C. Makes no sense to have it just for the iphone 8 and macbook.
Woo hoo, more dongles!
Glad I switched to Android. None of this proprietary nonsense.
Glad I switched to Android. None of this proprietary nonsense.
I dunno, most poets live a lot longer than 5 years.
And, they turn out a lot of questionable work in that time.
Parallels to Apple? mmmh
Seriously, put in USB-C and make the adapter dongle for a Lightning cable, so we can use both.
I hear there exists an inverse, exponential relationship between dongle size and the act of losing them.
Yep, even though a directly proportional relationship to increase in the existence of cargo pockets in all manner of "high tech" clothing though.
With a lossy input, you get a lossy output. What the HDMI adapter can output is irrelevant when its input is not up to par.
To get back to the subject - you can do this exact same thing with USB, theres nothing special with lightning going on here hardware wise - its just software support for an external device (that in this case takes a compressed video stream and outputs it to HDMI).
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This!
Or the WSJ was told "it's going to have a USB-C cable now" and the WSJ thought that meant dumping Lightning, when what it actually meant was a USB-C Lightning cable, like I'm using to charge my iPhone SE right now.
The "one mobile charger for all" is about micro-USB and not USB-C.
When they started, the mini-USB was the most common, and since then two USB-version has been released.
The campaign makes no sense as long as the tech industry keeps moving forward.
I obviously can't speak for everyone's use case, but the only dongles I ever use with my Apple products are display adapters for mini displayport-to-whatever, and I've had that issue with almost every Windows laptop I've used as well.
Didn't they say that Lightning was going to be their connection for the next ten years when they introduced it?
I'm sure they will go to a beefed up charger with 2.4A and usb-c connection instead of moving to usb-c on the phone.
I'm sure they will go to a beefed up charger with 2.4A and usb-c connection instead of moving to usb-c on the phone.