It's a Lightning cable. They're everywhere. In 2012, we said goodbye to 30-pin, and Lightning became Apple's main connector. But, seven years later, it's on only two types of devices: iPhones and ...

The 30-pin cables and docks were adapted or updated. Lightning is digital, whereas Apple's previous 30-pin interface was both analog and digital. Although adapters let 30-pin cables plug into ...

These adapters were required after Apple moved to Lightning from the old 30-pin connector which had dedicated pins for HDMI output. As the USB 2.0 link used with Lightning does not have the ...

The Lightning connector was a revolutionary 8-pin, reversible port that replaced the bulky 30-pin dock connector found ... However, while the port itself was durable, Apple's Lightning charging ...

Every extra cubic millimeter that they can stuff a battery into is no doubt important (and one of the reasons the Lightning port is so much smaller than the older 30-pin connector). But for the sake ...

The current interface is USB Type C, which superseded Apple's own 30-pin and Lightning connectors as well as the 3.5mm headphones jack. The Apple device contains the socket, and the cable or ...

Furthermore, unlike the transition from 30-pin to Lightning in 2012, Apple now has a richer, more lucrative ecosystem of accessories and devices based on Lightning, from AirPods and Apple Pencil to ...

Apple also surprised us by releasing the new iPad Air with an M3 chip. Many speculated that the company would move to the M4 chip due to the interim and problematic nature of the M3. That chip was ...