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Apple lightning to HDMI adapter is a computer

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Discussion from two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20544564

This was also noted in 2013 - https://panic.com/blog/the-lightning-digital-av-adapter-surp...

The anonymous comment is very interesting: https://www.panic.com/blog/2013/03/the-lightning-digital-av-...

What are the motivations for putting things like Apple Secure Boot in there? It makes me wonder if they someday want to be able to say "this dongle is not Apple approved".

That would not surprise me at all.

I've experienced several third party charging cables that somehow stop working so reliably immediately after an iOS update.

Apple definitely wants as much of the pie as they can get.

Or maybe Apple doesn't want to pay warranty claims (or, worse, lawsuits) on stuff that's burned up by cheap third-party power supplies and cables that are millimeters away from a fire at any given moment.

http://www.righto.com/2016/09/why-you-shouldnt-use-cheap-mac...

http://www.righto.com/2012/05/apple-iphone-charger-teardown-...

http://www.righto.com/2012/03/inside-cheap-phone-charger-and...

Don't they already do that? Apple used a chip in official and licensed lightning cables, and ones that didn't have the chip would prompt iDevices to say that the cable isn't Mfi certified.

similarly your hdd controller was a computer

technically, these days, anything larger than a usb wire can be a computer

smalltalk crossed the physical barrier

>technically, these days, anything larger than a usb wire can be a computer

USB wires too: https://twitter.com/kevinmitnick/status/1031662197422710784?...

You know, I've wondered about this exact attack. Also from wallwarts that plug into USB-C ports.

shudders

Priced at $50 it has terrible quality.

So... any idea why it's so bad?

The main reason is probably that 1080p30 is 1580 MBits and USB2 is only 480 MBits, so it has to do decompression.

Can you explain why you mention USB? It's Lightning to HDMI...

I think the title needs an edit: "lighting" should be "lightning".

Thanks, I was wondering if Apple was making a competitor to Hue bulbs.

Agreed, I was initially confused too.

Updated. Thanks!

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