Re:Apple Lightning
by userbinator on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @06:27PM
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Is it solely to try to prevent third-party manufacturers? Is it for the cable to announce to the port that it supports certain specifications of power or data? (But why would that require a chip instead of just some kind of "dumb" extra pin that has some basic electrical property that can be read?) Is it something else?
My theory is that it started as the former and then they realised it would seem less suspicious and more friendly to also use it for the latter.
My theory is that it started as the former and then they realised it would seem less suspicious and more friendly to also use it for the latter.