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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."
Many Apple users now have to use the official legal lightning cables included with their IPhone, they are not without a way to charge their phones. They may be out money because they chose to purchase a non-authorized cable. But that is their problem, cheap doesn't always equal better!!!
Except Ford doesn't sell gasoline and Texaco doesn't sell cars. Now, if you had something about aftermarket parts you might have had a valid analogy.
There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.
"stuff like this is exactly why Apple lost the Desktop OS battle years ago"
Because, say, QuickTime is more proprietary than DirectX? Or that Windows is more open than FreeBSD and Mach? Or Appletalk is closed evil, while NETBEUI is open wonderfullness? Or are you simply delusional, and think that Linux won the desktop OS battle?
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
Maybe you shouldn't have been bitches.
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Well, trolio shithead, the poster's analogy is stupid and inaccurate. You are, in fact, making my point for me in the first part of your post.
But, here, let me educate you. Many companies make cars with ignition systems that have keys that can only be gotten from the manufacturer or companies licensed to make said keys. One can't simply go to the local hardware store and have a new key made.
What Apple is doing is not uncommon in other industries and misrepresenting the situation with a blatantly false analogy proves exactly nothing.
His analogy would be appropriate if Apple somehow made the iPhone incompatible with common 60 Hz, 110V wall current requiring instead special Apple current.
Apparently, your point was to demonstrate your ignorance, be a troll, and throw out some flaimbait. Congratulations on being so blatant about it.
BTW, it is stupid for people to be upset about this when the law bans them from unlocking their phones without the carriers permission. What is worse, paying extra for a cable or possibly having to pay hundreds of dollars for a whole new phone?
There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.
No, the reason theyre charging $30 for a charger
is because there is a shit ton of engineering that went into making one of the best chargers in the world.