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eti:
+10,000 to Apple for plug and socket design, as I have maintained for years:

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/eckp0n/extraodinarily_unpopular_opinion_lightning_is/

USB-C is flimsy folded metal crap, with no retention latch. Lightning plugs are made of SOLID STEEL, machined out to fit the insulator and contact carrier, and has a dimple on each narrow side where the retention mechanism (ball bearings under spring pressure, from the sides of the socket, I believe) engages.

The USB-C bods could AT THE LEAST have made a better physical design! Also, why didn't they implement a STRICT usage & licencing scheme like Apple's "MFI" ("Made For iPhone") scheme? USB-C is a heap of crap, not least for the fact that picking a cable is a lottery; hope you don't want your stuff catching on fire, or having data stolen!!

Black Phoenix:

--- Quote from: eti on October 09, 2022, 12:47:04 am ---+10,000 to Apple for plug and socket design, as I have maintained for years:

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/eckp0n/extraodinarily_unpopular_opinion_lightning_is/

USB-C is flimsy folded metal crap, with no retention latch. Lightning plugs are made of SOLID STEEL, machined out to fit the insulator and contact carrier, and has a dimple on each narrow side where the retention mechanism (ball bearings under spring pressure, from the sides of the socket, I believe) engages.

The USB-C bods could AT THE LEAST have made a better physical design! Also, why didn't they implement a STRICT usage & licencing scheme like Apple's "MFI" ("Made For iPhone") scheme? USB-C is a heap of crap, not least for the fact that picking a cable is a lottery; hope you don't want your stuff catching on fire, or having data stolen!!

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Uhmm hummm:

https://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/10/09/apples-lightning-authentication-already-cracked/

https://www.vice.com/en/article/bj34z5/why-counterfeit-lightning-cables-kill-iphones-cheap-iphone-chargers

Testers/readers/writers for MFI cables chip:



Tips sold by the hundreds to manufacturer fake cables:


And I can guarantee that those tips are not machined.

eti:

--- Quote from: Black Phoenix on October 09, 2022, 01:33:56 am ---
--- Quote from: eti on October 09, 2022, 12:47:04 am ---+10,000 to Apple for plug and socket design, as I have maintained for years:

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/eckp0n/extraodinarily_unpopular_opinion_lightning_is/

USB-C is flimsy folded metal crap, with no retention latch. Lightning plugs are made of SOLID STEEL, machined out to fit the insulator and contact carrier, and has a dimple on each narrow side where the retention mechanism (ball bearings under spring pressure, from the sides of the socket, I believe) engages.

The USB-C bods could AT THE LEAST have made a better physical design! Also, why didn't they implement a STRICT usage & licencing scheme like Apple's "MFI" ("Made For iPhone") scheme? USB-C is a heap of crap, not least for the fact that picking a cable is a lottery; hope you don't want your stuff catching on fire, or having data stolen!!

--- End quote ---

Uhmm hummm:

https://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/10/09/apples-lightning-authentication-already-cracked/

https://www.vice.com/en/article/bj34z5/why-counterfeit-lightning-cables-kill-iphones-cheap-iphone-chargers

Testers/readers/writers for MFI cables chip:



Tips sold by the hundreds to manufacturer fake cables:


And I can guarantee that those tips are not machined.

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Apple will merely update iOS and kick out the iffy MFI chips. You’re talking about a company that has designed and manufactured their own silicon for many years, the latest iterations of which blow Intel out of the water. I can’t imagine a few knock off MFI chips being much of a challenge to such a brain tank behemoth.

Regardless of this, it was clear I’m referring the the genuine design and manufactured plugs and sockets, and the overall thought put into their design and robustness. USB-C is an embarrassing joke, physically AND with the endless slew of idiotic, confusing variants.

Black Phoenix:

--- Quote from: eti on October 09, 2022, 02:28:13 am ---Apple will merely update iOS and kick out the iffy MFI chips. You’re talking about a company that has designed and manufactured their own silicon for many years, the latest iterations of which blow Intel out of the water. I can’t imagine a few knock off MFI chips being much of a challenge to such a brain tank behemoth.

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Uhmmm hummm, the first news is from 2012, when it was cracked. It really takes a lot of years for Apple to block this knockoffs...

OK I feed you enough. Back to my ignore list.

eti:

--- Quote from: Black Phoenix on October 09, 2022, 02:42:22 am ---
--- Quote from: eti on October 09, 2022, 02:28:13 am ---Apple will merely update iOS and kick out the iffy MFI chips. You’re talking about a company that has designed and manufactured their own silicon for many years, the latest iterations of which blow Intel out of the water. I can’t imagine a few knock off MFI chips being much of a challenge to such a brain tank behemoth.

--- End quote ---

Uhmmm hummm, the first news is from 2012, when it was cracked. It really takes a lot of years for Apple to block this knockoffs...

OK I feed you enough. Back to my ignore list.

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Don’t tell me, tell Apple. 😁

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