Third-party accessory makers held up by Apple's new Lightning connector rules - Page 2

You obviously don't have an iPhone 5, since you're completely ignorant of the fact that it ships with a cable. Then you just plug that cable into a $2.99 auto USB adapter. Fully functional for charging your phone.

 

 

Except there are uses where there are no power pins, think camera connection kit (which probably has some power out even), so your six year old diode trick is not possible. NOBODY outside of Apple knows what has been foreseen for this connector.

Transfering data is really easy using iTunes or iCloud you don't need att to help you.

 

I thought the cable was $19 not 30 !

Yes, if you want a fully functional cable you will most likely have to have the chip so it can properly route all the signals to the right pins, etc.

 

However, if all you want is a simple charging cable then a diode would work fine.  Heck you wouldn't even have to have all 8 pins on the cable, just the 2 (or 4) needed to complete the charging circuit, and use a diode to assign the polarity correctly like he said.  This cable could be made very, very cheap, and probably sold for a dollar or two at a profit.  I think that would make many people happy.  I know I would buy a couple.  That's all I need in my truck or in my bedroom is a simple cable that can charge my phone.  I don't need it to be able to sync, or have analog/digital out for the music etc.  Then I could just keep the original apple cable in my office where my computer is so it is there whenever I need to hook it up to sync.  Rather than having to go into my bedroom, open up the charging station, unplug my lightning cable, carry it to the office, plug it into the computer, sync, then carry the cable back to the bedroom and hook it back up in the charging station.  Yeah it's not a huge amount a work, and I'm not losing any sleep over it, and obviously it's not enough for me to bother buying another lightning cable for $20, but it would definitely be worth it for $2-5 (which is around what I have paid for many of my fully functional 30 pin cables that I have in my bedroom, office, cars, at work, etc.).

last time I Checked "a diode" doesn't have a buffer and switch for digital lines...

 

Apple has announced all this except the (rather obvious) fact that the price of the cable is due to the fact that it is a "smart" cable.  

 

Idiots buy $100 "Monster" HDMI cables for their stupid TV's all day long without complaining (real value of cable is about $5), but a brand new smart cable with actual new technology in it for $30 is too much?  Give me a break.  

 

Humans are stupid. Stupid, stupid, stupid. 

 

You do realise that "what people are saying to you," has no bearing on anything at all right?  They are just voicing what the current media meme is or in other words, what's "popular" to think about Apple lately.  

 

It's not like they've all thought about it, researched it, wrote a few essays on the topic and came to this conclusion.  They are just saying what they heard or what they think is the thing to say now. 

 

Facts and reality will determine Apple's future.  Not this. 

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/10/09/apples-lightning-authentication-reportedly-cracked-unauthorized-third-party-cables-coming/

 

Apple's chip authentication is now reported cracked. Let the Chinese knock-off's begin. . .

 

EDIT: Something I found a little confusing was that the vendor was also buying official authentication chips from Apple's supplier. I would have thought Apple would have insisted on an exclusive supplier contract, forbidding the sale to other buyers without Apple's approval.

Edited by Gatorguy - 10/9/12 at 11:47am

From the looks of this video showing a development board from Cypress Semiconductor streaming Digital Audio to and from an iPhone 5, it seems that there's progress being made: http://youtu.be/I-zg8384hNk

No, the Apple Tax is the same as the Monster Tax, or any of the other high fees charged for what are essentially $1 cords. $20 for a cable that costs less than a dollar to make is excessive from any manufacturer, and Apple obviously doesn't want to end up being run around the way, for example, HDMI cable manufacturers have been. Accessories are a huge profit area, and having a custom chip in an otherwise cheap cable blocks competition in a way that open-spec cables cannot. This is the unfortunate side of loving Apple devices; the closed-ecosystem means that some 3rd-party options are off the table (at least for a while) so Apple can make more money.

 

NOPE! Apple doesn't lie about features and build.

 

 

I guess every single car made by every single company has a "Hugo Tax" huh? Good luck with that way of leading your life.

 

Not for Apple!

 

Mmm, no. If that's the case, then it's the case, but it's not the intent. I'd much rather have lazy idiots kept away from making things that feed electricity to my quality devices.

 

You mean the next to nothing they make in accessories? That "money"? The money that Apple doesn't care about in the first place?

Not very convincing Tallest Skil... you basically just say "no they don't" "no its not" "no no no" to every aspect... grtgrfx's points are not refuted. Its a shame what they make us pay for their accessories, how can you not see this?

 

Apple's prices and products are in no respect like Monster's prices and products. I explained that quite clearly. Apple builds quality products and makes a single digit multiple profit on each. There is nothing wrong with that. Monster builds probably quality products, lies about their construction and their properties, and makes several thousand percent profit on each. There is something wrong with that.

 

Because that's an outright lie and you know it. Compare the build quality of Apple accessories to third-party ones.

"Because that's an outright lie and you know it." No it is not, so no I don't know it. But I really hope what you say is true... I don't like where this company is heading.

 

Well, you know it now. You're welcome.

 

Which is exactly the same company they have been for the past fifteen years. GOT IT.

You are very aggressive. I don't understand why. This is a forum, is it not? I dont even want to get into your last response, just in general... what is the point of being aggressive on an internet discussion forum? You are a moderator, are you not?

 

Because you're trying to spread lies. 

I am not trying anything. Its a forum and we are discussing things.

You are super agressive, and now you're calling me a liar, because you do not agree with my opinion? Wow. 

 

It's not an opinion; it's just wrong. You're just not correct.

That is your opinion. I know this, because you are wrong. 

 

Wrong about what, that Monster lies about their products and prices them with a 500% markup? That Apple doesn't do the same? That Apple doesn't make their money on accessories? That Apple accessories cost more due to their true higher quality build than their third party equivalents?