Apple

Apple is an accessory company that makes technology products

you're new to Apple aren't you?

Apple sells a fucking piece of cloth for $20. This is nothing bro

Apple is solving issues that Apple had also created

Hi, are you new to Apple?

Everything apple does is overpriced scam on people, so why do you even ask? Be sheep and buy it or unplug and look elsewhere..

Apple? Expensive? Surely not

I feel like no one actually needs/wants this adapter, but Apple couldn’t just not make one. So it’s probably priced that way because they don’t expect to sell many at all.

You chose an excessively overpriced product - now you complain about prices of an the excessively overpriced product's accessories?

woulda thought you had taken these things into consideration when deciding to buy an excessively overpriced product

It’s the stupid tax/desperation tax. Either you are so stupid you’d buy an adapter for your cable that’s more expensive than a new cable or you are so desperate because a vital accessory has lightning built in and won’t work without a dongle

Or just get a good USB-C cable for $5

It's Apple trying to squeeze the last drop from the Lightning connector before its gone.

Not expensive. Do you know how much time, effort and money was involved in the design and manufacturing of this splendid piece of hardware from Apple?

/s

By sane standards, yes. By apple standards nope totally normal. I'd love to know how many billions they've made on cables and dongles which were only necessary because of intentional decisions they made. I probably would vomit though.

Also would be curious, how many people suffered or died due to not being able to charge their phone where a standard charger was available or vice versa for Android users?

I've been scoffed at for this idea before, but interoperability is extremely important, especially when you are talking about a major piece of society's infrastructure. And phones ARE that. It's hard to know the downstream effects of shit like this. All we know is that at best, millions of times people have had this conversation, needlessly as fuck:

"hey do you have a phone charger? I need a lightning cable." "No I only have usb-c" (or vice versa)

The best outcome you can hope for is having to think about this and be annoyed several times in your life. For years I refused to buy lightning cables but due to several factors I have ended up needing to buy like 7 lightning cables despite never buying a single apple product that requires one.

And no, apple simps, I give not one shred of a fuck about your apple apologias, fuck off with them. Micro USB was better in the same way a qwerty keyboard is better. technically it's inferior, but that doesn't matter AT ALL, because 1) it's a standard, and 2) it works.

This is how I imagine all posts in the apple community 😊

You made your bed.

Also surely this should be called a lightning to USB c adapter and not the other way around?

Based on the size of the connector a tear down is going to show a rather complicated board for a “simple” adaptor. Because the Lightning port is designed to be reconfigured on the fly depending on the accessory plugged in and not a single dumb bus protocol like USB2.0 the chip in this cable needs to be able to talk in HDMI and some other standards.

Fun fact: while Lightning was originally designed around being a reversible USB2.0 connector because of the dynamic reconfiguration of the reversible sides at the port it is capable of speaking in native USB3.0 on all of the pre-Usb-C iPad pros.

The price is reasonable for what it is, honestly, but very few people will actually need to buy one.

Google sells a $15 USB C to 3.5mm headphone jack adapter, and a $45 USB C to HDMI adapter. A $20 USB C to USB A cable. And a $20 USB C to USB C. This is standard market prices for big tech companies. I'm sure in a few weeks Anker or Aukey or whoever will have one for cheaper.

But why would you buy this? It looks like its lighting to usb c and in that case why not just use usb c? I know most modern macs have usb c and I would assume if you have the new phone that would necessitate this dongle you would also have the newer mac or PC with a usb c.

Also this is apple they sell wheels for like $900. https://www.apple.com/ca/shop/product/MX572ZM/A/apple-mac-pro-wheels-kit

Definitely overpriced.

Yes it is. But there's also not one single Apple accessory you have to buy from Apple and can usually get it for a fraction of the price elsewhere, so it's really only ignorant people and dedicated fanboys who spend the money.

If you look up pricing information in the US you will find that it’s abusive and often criminal although not illegal.

Keystone pricing is a lame term they used to use now it’s just criminal pricing imo.

No way is a minute piece of plastic worth that much.

Americans get robbed and it’s normal for some reason.

Kind of? It’s fucking absurd. I’ll just get another cable at that price point.

FYI, you can buy a 3 pack of USB-C to lightning port cables on Amazon for $7. LOL

What accessory are people even using this with is what I’m not sure of. I’m guessing they aren’t expecting to sell any of these anyway because even in a household full of iPhone users I can’t think of one possible use for this among us.

Luckily this is standardized and you can buy it elsewhere.

Not even any strain relief on the cable connections, this thing will disintegrate within 3 years

you thought the C in USB-C stands for cheap?

Especially when it only costs a quarter or two to make.

what do you expect from a company that sells a 19$ polishing cloth and a 1000$ stand. its part of their business to sell you accessories.

All apple cables and adapters are overpriced. People should just buy new cables. It takes the same amount of time to plug/unplug an adapter and a cable.

Yes. Might as well buy new accessories at that point…