What!! No longer can I buy from back-alley under-lit sweat shops comprised of rag-dressed children working 14-hour shifts??? 

But, that's how this country was made! It's the American way...!

I applaud Apple's efforts, but still feel cheap cables will be abound in a few months all over anyway. 

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Originally Posted by thataveragejoe 

I applaud Apple's efforts, but still feel cheap cables will be abound in a few months all over anyway. 

Cheap as in junk, yes. I don't think Apple is asking people to license the tech involved for financial gain, but simply to be able to exercise some level of quality control on stuff that people plug their iDevices into, which is a good thing. Manufacturers who haven't licensed the tech, who are making reverse engineered knockoffs, Apple can likely have their products banned and pulled, which is also a good thing because these manufacturers probably don't have any commitment to product quality but are just trying to make a quick buck with the cheapest crap they can knock out.

The Apple Supplier Code of Conduct is a great opportunity for an in-depth, thought-provoking editorial about Apple, corporatism, government, and the responsibilities of consumers. I'd love to read it.

Journalism consists of reporting the information that doesn't appear in companies' press releases, and analyses they don't don't want made of that which does.

"The rest is advertising." And don't we all see enough advertising?

I really wonder when Apple will release a Lightning to Thunderbolt connector...

I've been thinking about this and it makes perfect sense to release them. They don't have to be standard since most PC's don't have Thunderbolt but still I would really like faster transfer times. I don't know they could always call it Storm Connector or something like that...

Originally Posted by Rokrad 
...I would really like faster transfer times.

The NAND memory in iDevices prevents that. It won't go any faster.

In my experience the crappy cables I have bought in the past have outperformed the expensive MONSTER cables that my GUGI Friends bought. Don't see how this is any different, it's just for charging my device and the occasional reset once in a blue moon for anything else there is WI-FI.

Bring me the cheap nasty cables for charging anyday over the overpriced Apple Cables.

Originally Posted by TimmyDax 
That's incredibly short-sighted for a connector that's supposed to last ten years.

That's what the future is for. The dongle is pointless right now, but probably not then.

I don't think the current chips' r/w can saturate USB 2, even.