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Re:The Lightning Digital AV Adapter Surprise by pifflesnort on Friday March 01, 2013 @09:34PM (#5308205)
This provides no useful information whatsoever. I wouldn't be hugely surprised if they wrote code to the ARM MCU (if it has 2GB of RAM to work with), but what does "stub copy of iOS" even mean?

Also. Jimmy Hoffa is buried inside that microcontroller. I won't corroborate this further, but this is the dead-on truth.

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Re:The Lightning Digital AV Adapter Surprise by millerc on Saturday March 02, 2013 @12:26AM (#5308576)
No need to be sarcastic. I find it interesting that somebody goes through the trouble of creating a new user account, just to confirm a theory that nobody could confirm without getting in trouble.

It doesn't prove anything, but it certainly fits the context. I would say the theory (and the extra bit of information) merit being analyzed further.

FWIW, a "stub copy of iOS" would mean in this context "a copy of iOS where every OS function is stubbed except what's necessary to run AirPlay."

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Re:The Lightning Digital AV Adapter Surprise by micampe on Saturday March 02, 2013 @03:16AM (#5308936)
> creating a new user account

that gives me less confidence, not more.

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Re:The Lightning Digital AV Adapter Surprise by jacquesm on Saturday March 02, 2013 @07:40AM (#5309338)
Apple has fired people over less. /. has a long standing tradition of ACs breaking rank and posting insider stuff, I see no reason why the same couldn't happen on HN.
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Re:The Lightning Digital AV Adapter Surprise by mortenlarsen on Friday March 01, 2013 @10:08PM (#5308281)
2Gb = 2 GigaBit = 256MB RAM. It is common to measure individual RAM chips in bits, not bytes.
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