Ondrej Holzman Apple has always been champions in adapters. Its products often have different connectors than the standard ones, so users have to use converters to connect different peripherals. Apple currently offers 21 of them in the Czech online store. One new one will probably be added on Wednesday.
On the 17orbits blog collected a total of 25 adapters with the bitten apple logo. Below we offer you a list of those adapters that Apple currently has on offer in the domestic online store, while we have omitted the power adapters.
The reason why we mention more than two dozen adapters, which are often a nightmare for all Apple users, is that there will be a new one tomorrow with a high probability. And no less controversial. Adapter from Lightning to 3,5 mm jack.
iPhone 7, which Apple will present on Wednesday evening, it will lose the traditional 3,5 mm jack, which has been the standard for connecting headphones and other audio accessories for many years. In Apple, they are preparing for a radical cut so that the headphones in the new iPhone will be connected via Lightning.
The Californian giant will not be the first to equip its device with a 3,5mm jack, but given the popularity of its iPhones, it will certainly be the most significant such step to date. Everyone is now impatiently waiting to see if Apple will include a new adapter for the iPhone 7, or if – as is the custom – users will have to buy it for a few hundred crowns.
And what other adapters does Apple now offer?
- Lightning adapter - 30-pin connector
- Lightning/USB 3 camera adapter
- Thunderbolt / Gigabit Ethernet adapter
- USB‑C/USB adapter
- Lightning Digital AV Adapter
- Mini DisplayPort / VGA adapter
- USB‑C multiport digital AV adapter
- Lightning/USB camera adapter
- Adapter with micro USB connector and Lightning connector
- Apple Thunderbolt / FireWire adapter
- Mini DisplayPort / DVI adapter
- Apple micro USB adapter for iPhone
- VGA/Lightning adapter
- Apple HDMI - DVI adapter
- Text phone adapter for Apple iPhone
- Lightning adapter - 30-pin connector (0,2 m)
- Apple VGA adapter - 30-pin connector
- Apple Digital AV Adapter - 30-pin connector
- USB‑C multiport VGA adapter
- Mini DisplayPort - Dual-Link DVI adapter
- MagSafe - MagSafe 2 converter
I think the reduction goes against the grain of Apple's whole idea.
The idea is to drive it wirelessly. Of course, reduction in a moment will be useless.
The idea of driving something wirelessly is nice, but it comes up against the fact that it has to adapt to its surroundings. I have an MBP Retina, which is far from the "ideal" laptop without ports, and I still run into problems regularly. Projectors are VGA, televisions are HDMI, some monitors are DVI or VGA. They all go via USB (still usually 2.0), photos are on SDHC cards, speakers on jack.
It's easy to say - drive wirelessly, but you can do it at home. When they come to school and I have to present something, the cantor will give me a hard time if I am not able to connect my laptop to the projector or TV. If I'm not able to transfer my presentation anywhere else - using USB, then I'll be kicked out straight away.
The MBP Retina has an HDMI port so where do you see the problem in "TV on HDMI"?
VGA is a historical connector that has been abandoned for years and the vast majority of today's more expensive laptops do not have it due to its size. And many Windows users are also starting to encounter this problem, because Apple is really not the only one who has stopped putting it in the computer, but unlike the others - you can make VGA from the display port, HDMI only with a much more expensive adapter.
I haven't seen DVI in a laptop for many years, so you can't cite it as a disadvantage of the MBP against the others.
I understand that it is a disadvantage to have only displayport, as the MBA has, or only USB-C, as the new macbook has, but the MBP Retina is not far behind in video connectors, on the contrary, it has two, while the rest of the market is starting to offer only one.
I take myself as an example only partially, because really Retina is doing well. And even so, I sometimes come across - most often, mainly VGA. Rather, I wanted to demonstrate that I really wouldn't want fewer connectors...
Yes, but by that I mean again that it is a tax on mobility and design. Just like with that iPhone. He can easily have 5 more connectors, but at what cost.
And that VGA is a very bad example. It's real, but we've had a lot of other connectors and cables here for years, and they always plug VGA everywhere out of habit. I understand that you can easily run VGA 15 meters with a cable for a few hundred, and HDMI of the same length will cost you 10k or more... but at the price of reduced quality and incompatibility. And in the case of more expensive devices, I would expect that they would not have these retro crutches... it is precisely these richer users who have a strong enough voice to change the cabling because of them.
Not many people will listen to complaints about VGA from someone with an 8k Acer on sale. If people with 35k+ laptops start complaining anyway, then something will be done about it.
And believe it or not, many companies deal with Apple compatibility by buying devices with AirPlay support, so instead of dealing with transitions and adapters, they fit the Apple TV projector, with which connection is a matter of two clicks (and it really works, what about Android and you can't say windows, we deal with complaints all the time)
So I know why I buy Apple and probably will continue to buy for some time. I know its pros and cons, and I'm willing to sacrifice a bit of time, convenience, and money for possible reductions if I get something that works great in other ways.
VGA is just a great example in that it is a port from the 90s, but you can find it everywhere today. And that's understandable, it used to be the standard and today it's mainly driven by the price - which you mentioned.
Maybe companies do, but I still work in a studio environment and I can say that you can forget about something like AirPlay even in completely new or renovated lecture halls or classrooms. No one is going to pay 5k for an Apple TV because of 10% of students.
I mainly wanted to say that I don't really understand some of the frenetic cries about how great it is when Apple (or another company) drops one port from the standard. Of course, it's just a business strategy and if I thought I could do better, I'm not writing comments on Jablíčkář, but I'm sitting as CEO in my own visionary company. For me personally, every port that takes away more worries.
Studios will never switch to wireless because of the quality, and in the vast majority of auditoriums and classrooms it is AirPlay or something similar - you just don't know about it (of course I don't mean the auditorium where the entire renovation consisted of replacing the projector and the screen). When we sometimes do installations at universities, the price of those projects ranges in the millions per classroom, and almost every one has a collaboration/presentation system integrated there, which AirPlay almost always supports today. Sometimes they tell the students, sometimes they don't, sometimes they even disable it, but the option is there anyway.
I'm not denying your opinion, I'm just trying to say that nowadays it is almost always possible to use a more modern connector, but the owner/customer pushes it aside a bit because, unlike VGA, they don't know it. There's a dog buried in it. it would require a little enlightenment in these matters, because a regular user will tell you with VGA that the projector is connected through it, and with HDMI he will adamantly claim that he has never seen it and that it is not possible to output video from his computer (even though it has an HDMI port there)
Today it is, but in the future it won't be. I am wireless at home and in the car, but otherwise I have adapters for VGA, DVI and HDMI. However, I don't use them much anymore and the trend is clear in this regard.
I'll probably stop reading you, the article titles are starting to bother me quite a lot...
Why?
It's just a shame that Apple doesn't include USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 in iOS devices. I like Lightning better, but Apple would make all adapters useless in no time. By default, there would be only one connector across desktops and mobile devices…
I can totally sign and would expect it on an iPhone 7S (8?). But I have a feeling that Apple is deliberately delaying this step in order to sell Lightning (which it owns, does not have to pay a patent for it, and vice versa accessory manufacturers have to pay it) until it is bearable for users.
A lot of items on the list are already outdated and not used (my opinion)
easy question: can someone recommend me a power bank. there are older articles on the apple store and I'm looking for something from the current sale as well. I will charge two cell phones ip6s and ipSe. and to make sure it charges at least twice
Xiaomi Power Bank 20000mAh White☺️
Will it fully charge my iPhone 6S Plus 4x? They also make lower volumes that are in aluminum, I also have a 5000mAh one and it charges the Plusko once and there is one dot left.
it depends. charge 2 phones together? or 2 but each separately?
I have an i5se and this powerbank http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Avengers-Captain-America-Shield-Power-Bank-Charger-USB-10000mAh-for-all-mobile-phone-with-Package/32411269570.html?spm=2114.13010608.0.80.jVpZIl
and I am totally satisfied. 2 usb for 2 devices. it doesn't have the biggest capacity, but it looks great. processed perfect desing ultra perfect and price mega perfect
hey, I bought a ravpower 16500 on amazon for 24 euros and got 2 certified lightning USBs for free. I only give them for free once a month, otherwise I think it's -75% of the price. You can buy from AliExpress, but you won't get a warranty.
Thanks bought
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I recommend Thailand eloop E14 20000mah. A lot of music for a decent price.
Teletype adapter? TTY? I'll have to get a teletypewriter and test it out.