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Apple Starts Blocking Unauthorized Lightning Cables With iOS 7
beltsbear writes "Your formerly working clone Lightning cable could stop working with the latest iOS update. Previously the beta version allowed these cables to charge with a warning message but the final release actually stops many cables from working. Apples Lightning connector system is locked with authentication chips that can verify if a cable is authorized by Apple. Many users with clone cables are now without the ability to charge their iPhones."
1) Electrically shocked when using a malfunctioning generic cable
2) Financially shocked when you learn what Apple charges for a genuine cable
Increases the quality of apple's profit margins...
Apple fanboys are usually working with mommy or daddy's money, so $19 is real cheap to them. Especially when they buy $300 running shoes.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
Do you really think they wouldn't still be trying to lock out third-party products if no-one had been electrocuted?
if no one had been electrocuted, that would mean the guy at Apple whose job it is to make sure the iPhone electrocutes users of knockoff chargers must have been asleep at the wheel
how many pairs of boxer shorts should you own?
Think different.
I have yet to successfully plug a USB cable in upside-down, no matter how hard I try to force it.
I have yet to successfully plug in a USB cable right-side-up the first time, even though it's supposed to be 50-50.
>Try to plug in
>Nope
>Turn over
>Nope
>Turn over again
>Goes in.
It's the work of Satan, I tells ya.
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BMO
Greed? You call it greed? How can you? I am very happy that Apple has these approved conductors. Using an unapproved conductor might result in some random positively charged electron flowing through my device. What kind of havoc might result from THAT? Oh, Please, Apple - put those chips into your conductive cables! Filter out those positive electrons!! Yea, though I walk through the valley of positiveness, Apple will protect me with negativeness!!
Alright, so the inanity and the sarcasm are over done - I apologize.
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