I just looked, but could only find USB-C to male lightning ports. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an adapter or cable with a female lightning port on the end.
Yes, some accessories have a hard-wired lightning male end (and therefore need a female adapter). The Apple pencil, those alarm clock speaker docks, some flash drives, etc.
None of those devices I listed have a cable attached to it, just a male lightning end as part of the device itself.
The Apple pencil, that came out 8 years ago, charges with a male lightning port at the end (where an eraser might go on a normal pencil). There’s no cable, you’d just insert that end to a lightning supported iPad or iPhone to recharge.
The magnetic charger enabled second generation came out in 2018, but Apple still fully supports the first generation model.
Ah gotcha. Thanks for clarifying because I was imagining a goofy cable hanging off the end of the thing, flying all over the place while you’re writing.
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.
Go have a look at their pricing for dongles and stuff for a computer.
I used to work there and my eyes watered when I told people the price. We had quite bougie customers who would drop over £100 on three cables and marching plugs.
Based on the size of the connector a tear down is going to show a rather complicated board for a “simple” adaptor. Because the Lightning port is designed to be reconfigured on the fly depending on the accessory plugged in and not a single dumb bus protocol like USB2.0 the chip in this cable needs to be able to talk in HDMI and some other standards.
Fun fact: while Lightning was originally designed around being a reversible USB2.0 connector because of the dynamic reconfiguration of the reversible sides at the port it is capable of speaking in native USB3.0 on all of the pre-Usb-C iPad pros.
The price is reasonable for what it is, honestly, but very few people will actually need to buy one.
Is the USB 3.0 with or without an adapter? Cause lightning has 1 pair of connections to a twisted wire too few for a 1 to 1 connection from the lighting to a USB A connector
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.
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.
The industrial design teams spent months streamining the design and making all the angles complement each other so the design is simple, yet not too busy, while still providing 35% of the capability of our competition.
It’s the stupid tax/desperation tax. Either you are so stupid you’d buy an adapter for your cable that’s more expensive than a new cable or you are so desperate because a vital accessory has lightning built in and won’t work without a dongle
This is the answer. It is expensive because it will be a low demand item. Most people will never need this, so it is a specialty item that is taking up valuable shelf space.
All the conspiracy theories in this thread are just the standard “whaa, they changed something” whining.
This has a different purpose. It’s if you want to connect your iPhone to a 2008 car that still has a 30pin port (that you adapted to lightning) or a 2013 base model that only has lightning for example. For specialty accessories basically
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