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Apple's Lightning-to-HDMI Dongle Secretly Packed With ARM, Airplay
New submitter joelville writes "After noticing artifacts and a 1600 × 900 image in the output from Apple's new Lightning Digital AV Adapter, the Panic Blog sawed it open and found an ARM chip inside. They suspect that video bypasses the cable entirely and instead uses Airplay to stream three inches to make up for the Lightning connector's shortcomings."
Remember when Apple was known (at least by the general public) as being the company with simple, elegant engineering?
They still are. Sending video through Airplay is WAY easier than keeping cables around to hook up an iPad to a display, and having to know how to switch video inputs (still an unfathomable mystery to many).
So they simplified the design to no longer send video straight out through the connector, BUT they still designed a cable to support the few remaining people that had that need.
Thus the main design is simpler and meets most people's needs at a lower cost and is easier to use. But it's not like they disabled functionality, and if you need for some reason real 1080p streaming physically from an iPad you can always buy an iPad 2 or 3.
How the mighty have fallen.
Help! I've fallen and am only outselling everyone else in the market by a huge margin! Don't let me keep living down here in this luxurious mans... I mean briar patch!
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Wow, that makes it even more braindead, given how much more bandwidth you have in a wired network. Does it at least stream with better bitrate over a wired network?
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