

Guy Kawasaki  (Source:
Guy Kawasaki takes Apple to task for not going with micro USB


Apple's $29 Lightning adapter

Source: The Daily Telegraph

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RE: 1983-1987?
By testerguy on 9/25/2012 2:32:25 AM , Rating: 2
HD is relative.

Which specific resolution are you talking about?

In many cases people are actually sending compressed video and compressed audio - so watching the movie doesn't prove the bandwidth argument wrong.

Try transferring Full HD with HD audio whilst charging your device and allowing the device to control the dock / vice versa, over microUSB.

It wont work, which is why Samsung created a proprietary 11 pin MHL connector.

RE: 1983-1987?
By vailr on 10/1/2012 2:23:17 AM , Rating: 2
Shouldn't mini-USB 3.0 be capable of vastly better bandwidth than Apple's new Lightning connector? From what I understand, the Lightning connector is only comparable to USB 2.0 speeds, when simply copying a video file from an iPhone to a PC, for example.
Has anyone asked Apple why they didn't simply go with mini-USB 3.0 connecter instead? The control circuitry would be too bulky for an iPhone, or: ?

