<story><title>Apple Lightning Connector Serial Access (2015)</title><url>http://ramtin-amin.fr/#tristar</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>exabrial</author><text>Apple is kinda put into a tight spot with lightning; they spent a bunch of money developing the connector an accessory platform. Now usb-c is taking over and they&amp;#x27;ve moved to 100% usb-c on their laptops. it&amp;#x27;ll be interesting to see if the lightning connector gets The Chopping Block anytime soon</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gumby</author><text>Don&amp;#x27;t forget that Apple also participated in the design of Type C, which followed development of lightning.&lt;p&gt;The big wins for lightning are that it&amp;#x27;s tsuper thin and that the part more likely to break is on the cable rather than the socket, while the type c socket on my MacBook and the one on my Anker charger (somewhat) rapidly became loose.  I&amp;#x27;d hoped that it would be the ground shroud on the cable but sadly it was the sockets that failed.&lt;p&gt;The newer phones are getting thicker again so it&amp;#x27;s possible there will be room for Type C.  The 6&amp;#x2F;7&amp;#x2F;8 designs were too thin to admit a type C cable, especially given the camber.</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple Lightning Connector Serial Access (2015)</title><url>http://ramtin-amin.fr/#tristar</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>exabrial</author><text>Apple is kinda put into a tight spot with lightning; they spent a bunch of money developing the connector an accessory platform. Now usb-c is taking over and they&amp;#x27;ve moved to 100% usb-c on their laptops. it&amp;#x27;ll be interesting to see if the lightning connector gets The Chopping Block anytime soon</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>scarface74</author><text>Apple spent $356 million on Authentec for its fingerprint authentication technology and more on research and is dropping that in favor of Face ID.&lt;p&gt;Apple is well known for dropping ports. It dropped all of its ports for USB back in 1997.&lt;p&gt;I doubt that Apple will let sunk costs stop it from moving forward.</text></comment>