In what world does this make any sense, why not just buy a USB a to C cable? It would function exactly the same as getting an Adapter for the lightning… no? When could this possibly be needed?
But why would you buy this? It looks like its lighting to usb c and in that case why not just use usb c? I know most modern macs have usb c and I would assume if you have the new phone that would necessitate this dongle you would also have the newer mac or PC with a usb c.
Yeah. If you’re spending $1500 on the brand new iPhone I’m sure an extra $30 to still be able to use your accessories isn’t a big deal.
Just stay a couple years behind on Apple stuff and it’s not that expensive. I got a brand new iPhone 11 for $300 a in 2021 (it released in 2019). I’ll use it for probably four years. In 2025 I’ll probably be buying this year’s model.
It looks like their standard rubbery cable material. The sleeve rapidly discolors, and then cracks and frays into some kinda cheese stick cheese head looking situation. Leaving the braided metal shielding exposed. Without fail, every cable for like the past 15 years.
By sane standards, yes. By apple standards nope totally normal. I’d love to know how many billions they’ve made on cables and dongles which were only necessary because of intentional decisions they made. I probably would vomit though.
Also would be curious, how many people suffered or died due to not being able to charge their phone where a standard charger was available or vice versa for Android users?
I’ve been scoffed at for this idea before, but interoperability is extremely important, especially when you are talking about a major piece of society’s infrastructure. And phones ARE that. It’s hard to know the downstream effects of shit like this. All we know is that at best, millions of times people have had this conversation, needlessly as fuck:
“hey do you have a phone charger? I need a lightning cable.” “No I only have usb-c” (or vice versa)
The best outcome you can hope for is having to think about this and be annoyed several times in your life. For years I refused to buy lightning cables but due to several factors I have ended up needing to buy like 7 lightning cables despite never buying a single apple product that requires one.
And no, apple simps, I give not one shred of a fuck about your apple apologias, fuck off with them. Micro USB was better in the same way a qwerty keyboard is better. technically it’s inferior, but that doesn’t matter AT ALL, because 1) it’s a standard, and 2) it works.
“Also would be curious, how many people suffered or died due to not being able to charge their phone where a standard charger was available or vice versa for Android users?”
Are you seriously asking how many people have died because they can’t charge their phone?
Google sells a $15 USB C to 3.5mm headphone jack adapter, and a $45 USB C to HDMI adapter. A $20 USB C to USB A cable. And a $20 USB C to USB C. This is standard market prices for big tech companies. I’m sure in a few weeks Anker or Aukey or whoever will have one for cheaper.
This sub sucks. No really, it’s be great if we could actually have conversations about Apple products and decisions instead of it being full of people that just want to dunk on Apple with uninformed and tired takes.
There is a legit way we can talk about the dongle, how it’s existence makes perfect sense, and how there are cheaper/better alternatives on the market. Instead we have “Hur hur hur, Apple expensive, what do you expect? Are you new?”. It’s not intelligent, it’s not right, and it completely ignores so many realities.
I still have the dock connector to lightning adapter, which was purchased for that exact reason! i kinda want to get this and see if i can chain them together hahaha
Theoretically yes, but I’m having a very hard time even finding peripherals with male lightning ports when I searched out of curiosity, and the few I saw were the same price as this adapter or cheaper. Every single peripheral I found that has a male lightning port uses it for the purpose of making it sit flush against the phone, otherwise it would have made more sense to simply buy a USB-C accessory and use a C to lightning cable. This adapter removes the streamlined nature of those peripherals.
I’m sure there’s some rare use case where this adapter makes sense, so I don’t literally mean nobody would ever need this in any circumstance, but since the need for it would be so small I think the heightened price makes sense since there would be very little demand.
MUCH cheaper adapters do exist. Some of them may or may not burst into flames, YMMV.
$30 is likely overpriced, but $2 is going to be way underpriced for what should be a smart adapter with some safety circuit inside… and gold plated copper connectors, not just copper plated aluminum… so pick wisely.
Yes it is. But there’s also not one single Apple accessory you have to buy from Apple and can usually get it for a fraction of the price elsewhere, so it’s really only ignorant people and dedicated fanboys who spend the money.
fuck people for not caring much about $10? i wouldn’t even consider that being rich. do you consider everyone in the middle class as obscenely rich? the average person out of their teens and 20s can waste $10 without caring.
included in the group that lives paycheck-to-paycheck are plenty of people making six figures.
what you’re also ignoring is stuff like time cost. for a certain person, the time spent to find and research a reliable alternative at a lower price point might be worth more than $10 or $20.
Capitalist pigs are spending $10 to deny spending $2 to support our comrades in SE Asia, who unironically also made the $10 version, which is unironically the exact same one
Mate I can promise you that the people splurging $10 on a accessory cable aren’t the rich people we need to be worried about. And let’s not act like Android doesn’t have its fair share of overpriced phones and cables in the market, either.
Do you mean an Anker or Amazon Basics version or an Apple. Session but sold by someone else? If the latter, it’s counterfeit if you’re getting it at a huge discount.
Give the disclaimers and reviews those have a ton of limitations. The official dongle has a lot more going on. It’s extremely niche to need it in the first place.
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