Lightning “Palsu” Tidak Akan Kompatibel Dengan iPhone 5

Bagi kamu yang telah memiliki iPhone 5, jangan pernah membeli Lightning yang bukan produk asli Apple. Pasalnya, menurut penemuan dari Double Helix Cable Lightning memiliki sebuah chip khusus di dalamnya sehingga apabila kita membeli Lightning yang tidak asli, dapat dipastikan kita hanya akan memboroskan uang kita meskipun, harganya lebih murah.

Berikut penuturan Peter dari Double Helix Cable:

“You can’t just build a Lightning cable by making something with the same shape and connectivity, and my teardown proves that. The chip has to be there, and it is directly in the signal path of the V+ wire.”

Gizmodo mengatakan bahwa akan sangat sulit bagi orang yang ingin menduplikasi Lightning. Hal ini didasarkan pada pendapat Peter dalam emailnya kepada Gizmodo:

It remains to be seen whether the chip can be reverse engineered. Nobody that I know of managed to crack the MFi program before, since digital Apple docks and other MFi certified stuff were always quite costly and only coming from well established name brands that participated in the program. I never saw any off brand, super cheap version of the iPod USB digital audio interfaces that cost hundreds of dollars. If the chip has some code on board that makes it authenticate with the iPhone, then it may be hard to duplicate for sure. If it’s doing a “smart” function like pin assignment or something crazy like that, then it definitely is going to be mandatory. Apple has said it’s a “smart” connector but it is horrifying that just a basic power charging/sync cord like this requires additional complexity. But until some serious engineers figure out exactly what the chips do (MFi people are under NDA so I don’t think they can tell us without breaking NDA) then it remains open for debate why this cable is like this.

Lightning adalah sebuah kabel USB baru dengan ukuran 8-pin, menggantikan kabel USB sebelumnya yang lebih besar dengan ukuran 30-pin. Lightning dibanderol dengan harga $19 atau bila dikonversi ke Rupiah, Lightning memiliki harga sekitar hampir Rp. 200.000. Cukup mahal memang untuk sebuah kabel USB.

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