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Apple Starts Blocking Unauthorized Lightning Cables With iOS 7

Posted by timothy on from the there-there's-smoke dept.

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."

3 of 663 comments (clear)

  1. Two ways to be shocked by a Lightning cable by JoeyRox · · Score: 5, Funny

    1) Electrically shocked when using a malfunctioning generic cable
    2) Financially shocked when you learn what Apple charges for a genuine cable

  2. Re:In other news by bitt3n · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

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    how many pairs of boxer shorts should you own?
  3. Re:Wow, they managed to break the idea of a cable! by bmo · · Score: 5, Funny

    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