nobodyy

These articles blindly miss the entire reason Apple moved to Lightning: To move the hardware dependencies for video out and any other standard, whether it exists today or not, outside of the iDevice and into the cord. 

Look at the construction of the HDMI cables - they're basically small iPod touches that run a firmware that converts digital airplay video to hdmi output - that complexity removed from idevices means that Apple can slim down he logic boards which saves space and cost. There is no way to support HDMI alternate mode out on USB-C without reverting that. 

Not it to mention Apple controls everything about the standard: iOS devices flash the firmware to cords, they can implement any future connector, it handles the handshake for wireless pairing... Apple got a lot of crap for pushing the maximum voltage on Macs with USBA, none of those things would be possible if they used USBC 

This reason ALONE is why Apple will never move to USB-C on iPad or iPhone.