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Nokia Design Guru Urges Apple To End Cable Chaos
An anonymous reader writes "Nokia's former head designer has called on Apple to work with the broader technology industry and end its policy of having proprietary connectors for its device chargers and accessories. Other experts say Apple cannot continue to go it alone with Lightning Connectors and ignore Micro USB."
I know this won't happen, especially since the EU mandates Micro-USB.
And even more especially because Apple has patented aspects of the Lightning connector, and have no intentions of sharing.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face
they're friendly to ACCESSORY manufacturers.
that's quite different from 3rd party hw manufacturers...
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
No, "some company" does not own "the patent" on microUSB. USB was developed by an industry consortium to be a shared standard and, by design, no one company controls it.
No kidding!!! What do you say at this point?
Fixed that for you.
You didn't fix it very well.
There are at least 2 data protocols which will output video from micro-USB. MHL and Slimport (aka MyDP, mobile DisplayPort). Both can do 1080p60 output (i.e. FullHD and 3D), and aside from how they draw power, they work in a similar way to the end user - plug dongle into phone, plug HDMI cable into dongle, plug power (if applicable) into dongle, and play. Dongles start from $20 up.