As you all know by now, with the presentation of the iPhone 5 Apple introduced a new cable based on the Lightning connection and abandoning the usual one based on the 30-pin connector. We all know the advantages and disadvantages by now, although we are going to focus on one disadvantage that affects us all: its price.
Accessories that depend on Lightning are expensive, especially if we opt for Apple's official ones. Little by little, the brands are encouraged to present alternatives with more affordable prices or more complete features But first, these accessories must comply with Apple's MFi program.
Mophie, one of the manufacturers that sells accessories for Apple products, has revealed a very interesting fact about the authentication chip that incorporates all accessories with Lightning connection: Apple may release an update that renders all unauthorized Lightning products unusable, that is, Chinese replicas that do not conform to Apple's MFi program.
Apparently through the reverse engineering process, the authentication chip of the Lightning connection can be copied but if Apple decided to release an update, these replicas would not be able to adapt to the changes and they would stop working.
With this measure Apple ensures maximum control when supplying accessories for its devices. In terms of cables, it is advisable to trust recognized manufacturers to avoid greater evils and even more so after knowing this information.
More information - The iPhone 5 Lightning cable has been hacked
Source - 9to5Mac
-.- here in my country a cable of that type costs up to $ 60 and earpods $ 55
I'm not telling you that more things can be done on Android than on iOS, but in terms of accessories, Apple is second to none.
I do not see this measure as bad. It is good to know that the accessory that we have connected to our iPhone of 669 euros (minimum) meets Apple's guidelines and will work as it should without putting the device at risk.
How many cases have been seen in actualidad iPhone of damaged phones after a cable, charger or car charger of dubious quality. Of course, the price of Apple cables seems crazy to me, they have completely gone crazy.
You change your mind more than a weather vane.
Come on, you haven't put a post with links to buy cables and chargers from 30 pins to DX, what happens, before it didn't matter if it was worth € 669?
There are cables and cables, apart, I have not been to recommend much cables, yes docks that are a mere conductor from one point to another of the current and electronics do not intervene.
Nacho man, being a current conductor but he does not intervene in electronics, we go wrong.
As for Apple, the usual, they, their things and their whims. I agree with you that it is good to have the guarantee that a cable is of quality but there are companies that offer me the same or more confidence without Apple having to control them.
A cable is a conductor of current in which no electronics intervene. Now strip the wire, harden the wire (or take any rigid conductive material) and put 30 in a row without touching. Ala, you can now make your own dock.
Well, nothing if you really believe that a dock with the interior that you have put me can not affect an iPhone if it is manufactured defectively, I can tell you little.
Fitting a socket for a light bulb is even simpler and some room has burned from doing it wrong or using a socket from the Chinese, is it weird? very rare but it happens believe me.
In the end it seems that I am agreeing with Apple when it is not like that 😜, in short, guaranteed quality, yes, controlled by Apple in products that are not theirs to be able to set prices and get a slice, no thanks.
But how are they going to defectively fabricate a conductive track that goes from point A to point B? You would have to be useless.
If you buy a dock in which there are capacitors and they are of questionable quality, that can blow your phone but something that has conductive tracks that go from one place to another cannot do anything. It is impossible. And to this day no Chinese dock has come out that the 5V track has brought it to ground and the ground track to 5V.
And if a track breaks, it stops working because the circuit remains open but does NOT break the terminal.
I'm not telling you that more things can be done on Android than on iOS, but in terms of accessories, Apple is second to none.
I do not see this measure as bad. It is good to know that the accessory that we have connected to our iPhone of 669 euros (minimum) meets Apple's guidelines and will work as it should without putting the device at risk.
How many cases have been seen in actualidad iPhone of damaged phones after a cable, charger or car charger of dubious quality. Of course, the price of Apple cables seems crazy to me, they have completely gone crazy.
Like what?
A cable bought at focalprice has stopped working for me since the update to 6.1, I thought it had broken but now that you say this I doubt it.
Does it charge you? I assume that Lightning cables that do not meet Apple guidelines will not be able to sync but will be able to charge.
It neither charges nor synchronizes me, on the other hand, another one bought in dx works perfectly by charging and synchronizing
Apple is the new IBM
I bought a cable in dealextreme, it lasted about 3 days, then it began to lose connectivity, finally the fucking cable damaged the lighting input of the iphone 5, it stopped recognizing any cable even the original one, never more alternative lighting cables
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You did not want iPhone 5 well ...
by force to spend the money ,,, with how easy it is a single charger for everything or a USB for everything ,,, I do not understand these people how they do this ??
The same about the guarantees ,,, for the hell they want to put us 1 year of guarantee only
In other words, 80% of the new tablet devices or rather smartphones are USB ...
Well, they are going to put the clable under our noses for (not say another bad sounding word)
how strong it seems to me ..
In other words, if you buy unauthorized wiring, Apple makes it useless to take your money as a bag, right?
the virgin with these people !!!
In my country, an original Apple lightning cable can cost up to more than $ 70 !!! A real joke !!!
The Galaxy Note 2 is fine, but I hate not owning my leg and not being able to bend it whenever I want, it's quite frustrating.
Confirmed, they are locked with the official update ..
A lightning replica of the iphone5 has stopped working from one moment to another, my question is: if it blocks this cable, and I buy another from Tiger or some accessories store in Barcelona, which are cheaper than the Apple store, having blocked my old cable this already blocked it directly or is there a possibility that it works?