Thursday, January 10, 2013

Did Amazon Upset Apple By Selling Knock-Off Lightning Cables?

via Pocketnow by Stephen Schenck on 12/27/12

Shortly after Apple introduced its new Lightning connector alongside the launch of the iPhone 5, we learned that the circuitry inside Lightning cables included an authentication chip, apparently to stop companies from producing cheap, unlicensed Lightning accessories. Well, it didn’t take long for manufacturers to break Apple’s security, and we’ve since seen the arrival of just the sort of cheap knock-off Lightning cables Apple was ...

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