Comments on: Apple’s New Lightning USB Cable Strikes…Slowly?

By: Austin Wang

Austin Wang — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 03:16:00 +0000

they should just have a mini version of thunderbolt

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 05:21:26 +0000

what on earth are you talking about? when did he say that the old one is not a 30 pin? he most certainly said that it did have a 30 pin. when did he say it did not?

I’m sad about the new cable’s speeds. a lightning to thunderbolt cable would have been the only reason I would have switched from android to iphone. they really crushed my hopes and dreams. I still have nothing to use my 2 thunderbolt ports on, and nothing in the near future will use it.

they seriously need a thunderbolt thumb drive. why haven’t they come out with that? I would buy it.

By: rich

rich — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 14:39:41 +0000

In reply to Steven Jensen.

A bit anal, dude. His Point is the speed of the new connection and not the number of pins on the old connection. He didn’t comment on you woman or child, so just relax.

He is totally correct in A-hole dropping the ball on this one. Starting to look like Weekend at Bernie’s II, with lame changes to “innovative new product” to make people think the spirit of Steve Jobs is still alive at Apple.

By: Tyler Allen

Tyler Allen — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 05:13:16 +0000

You both need to do your home work! The “lightning” connecter piece is capable of much higher speeds. Its the cable that it ships with thats not. Secondly Apple has said that it is “Adaptive”. Meaning just because it ships with usb 2.0 (so everyone can use it)($), that In the very near future you won’t see usb 3.0 connectors. Soon after or hopefully the same time thunderbolt will be released. Maybe its ready now? either way. We or at least I will buy it when it becomes available, and be thankful they didn’t rush it to me with “issues”… heating / SSD corruption due to mismanaged conversions! Say if a Mac Air 2012 unplugged is syncing via thunderbolt. how much energy is it pulling. Could it freeze. could you loose your work? They avoid these things by patience! Then Perfection! To do otherwise would be very…Microsoft!

By: Computer agnostic

Computer agnostic — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 02:16:22 +0000

I agree the USB 2.0 speeds sucks at launch,cand USB 3.0 lacking is depressing as hell, when you call it lightning. I was looking for a thunderbolt cable with the new connector because USB 2.0 is painfully slow to me in 2012. I’m sure there will be one at apple prices in the future.

I cling to an iPod FireWire 800 cable with 30 pon dock cable with dual usb from Apple. Only one spare, can’t find it anywhere now.

By: Ted Wood

Ted Wood — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 01:19:38 +0000

I’m surprised that Apple hasn’t posted a dedicated page about the Lightning cable on their site like they have other port/cable technologies (Firewire, Thunderbolt). The cable design actually quite neat. The dimples on the sides of the connector suggest a bearing-based mechanism akin to the original iPod shuffle’s cap. That design was heralded as brilliant and “break-proof” because the spring-loaded bearings could roll smoothly while providing a firm connection, rather than a friction-based mechanism that most manufacturers use.

By: Ted Wood

Ted Wood — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 01:16:00 +0000

(Typo in my comment above. Moderator, please fix. Should be “clocked at 2.0”, not 3.0.

By: Ted Wood

Ted Wood — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 01:15:13 +0000

Does the cable limit the transfer speed to USB 2.0? They might be saying that because the device (iPhone, iPod, etc.), and not cable itself is clocked at 3.0. I bet that the Lightning cable will work perfectly fine at higher transfer speeds once the device itself gains that speed. Apple has been slow to adopt USB 3.0, so there must be a good reason for it. More power consumption? Heat generation? There has to be a reason, not just laziness on their part.

By: Asides

Asides — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 19:50:56 +0000

Seems like Apple really dropped the ball on this one. Clearly it’s still fragile or likely to cause damage to the connector or phone, it offers less connectivity, no analog audio for instance, and as it’s now as slow as USB2 then it seems a complete disaster, it will of course be adopted because people are locked into the ecosystem, but it doesn’t seem an improvement.

They should have considered a shallow magsafe format if they really cared about delicacy, and they really should have used a Thunderbolt connection if they’d wanted to gain adoption of that (already dieing) technology, even USB3 would have done.

As it stands this really just feels like a cheap way to nickle and dime customers for upgraded accessories that they already own.

By: Steven Jensen

Steven Jensen — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:02:05 +0000

The connector on most of the apple devices is actually a 30-pin connection. You need to be careful not to post incorrect information. It can reflect poorly on both your credibility and the credibility of all Isource posts.