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Re:Breakdown of Apple lightning port by flatline3 on Monday September 24, 2012 @12:49AM (#4563261)
microUSB hasn't become compatible with new standards, it has been hacked to allow the pinouts to be repurposed for new standards.

The implication of this article is that the Lightening port can be repurposed, without changes to the device's hardware, simply by providing a new cable and software.

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Re:Breakdown of Apple lightning port by bryanlarsen on Monday September 24, 2012 @09:49AM (#4564623)
without changes to the device's hardware

If the iPhone5 doesn't have internal USB3 or HDMI or DP support, it can't magically gain it through the use of a new cable and new software. It's probable the iPhone6 will support all or most of those, but that's because they changed the device's hardware...

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Re:Breakdown of Apple lightning port by dmishe on Tuesday September 25, 2012 @01:37AM (#4568797)
Why not? The new lighting cable with hdmi or dp chip that transcodes data from soc with new software
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