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Why would anyone ever need this?
Expensive peripherals you don't want to replace?
Maybe you have a very smart powerful IPhone dock or something. Spending 30 bucks to keep it operational would be better than replacing it.
I still have the dock connector to lightning adapter, which was purchased for that exact reason! i kinda want to get this and see if i can chain them together hahaha
Theoretically yes, but I'm having a very hard time even finding peripherals with male lightning ports when I searched out of curiosity, and the few I saw were the same price as this adapter or cheaper. Every single peripheral I found that has a male lightning port uses it for the purpose of making it sit flush against the phone, otherwise it would have made more sense to simply buy a USB-C accessory and use a C to lightning cable. This adapter removes the streamlined nature of those peripherals.
I'm sure there's some rare use case where this adapter makes sense, so I don't literally mean nobody would ever need this in any circumstance, but since the need for it would be so small I think the heightened price makes sense since there would be very little demand.