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Re:Apple Reportedly Planning to Limit iPhone 15 USB-C Port i... by goosedragons on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @07:15PM (#34813020)
Gotta hold onto those $60 HDMI adapter sales I guess...

The ecosystem of USB C accessories is one of the best parts. Lightning accessories are incredibly expensive and incredibly limited by comparison.

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Re:Apple Reportedly Planning to Limit iPhone 15 USB-C Port i... by greenknight on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @07:23PM (#34813098)
doesnt their 'lightning to hdmi' adapter, really a hack with an arm chip with ram in there to transcode the output from the phone into a hdmi signal?
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Re:Apple Reportedly Planning to Limit iPhone 15 USB-C Port i... by AdamJacobMuller on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @07:26PM (#34813136)
It certainly was. It might not be anymore but it worked fairly well so I'm not sure why they would change it.
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Re:Apple Reportedly Planning to Limit iPhone 15 USB-C Port i... by kalleboo on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @08:39PM (#34813823)
It still is since Lightning doesn't have the bandwidth for a raw HDMI signal, only a compressed video stream
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Re:Apple Reportedly Planning to Limit iPhone 15 USB-C Port i... by RulerOf on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @07:43PM (#34813302)
It's basically an airplay receiver with an HDMI output.
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Re:Apple Reportedly Planning to Limit iPhone 15 USB-C Port i... by scarface74 on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @11:59PM (#34815247)
Does anyone not comparison shop?

https://a.co/d/2KdWjH9

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Re:Apple Reportedly Planning to Limit iPhone 15 USB-C Port i... by goosedragons on Thursday February 16, 2023 @05:55AM (#34817191)
Not at all. Let's take a look at a USB C option:

https://www.amazon.com/Multiport-Adapter-Compatible-MacBook-...

For many many years there wasn't a reliable seeming 3rd party lightning to HDMI adapter. I bought mine in about 2019ish? And besides Apple the only one I could find was a sketchy clone of Apple's.

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