Apple's Vision Pro battery pack is hiding the final boss of Lightning cables
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Re: Apple's Vision Pro battery pack is hiding the final boss of Lightning cables
#2Can someone check its charging speed please, is it quicker than USB-C or lightning?
Re: Apple's Vision Pro battery pack is hiding the final boss of Lightning cables
#3> In an alternate timeline, this might have been USB-C, part of a world where external batteries for the headset are plentiful and don’t need Apple’s special approval (or is that spatial approval? Ha ha, just a little Vision Pro humor there)
Yeesh, maybe don’t try incorporating comedy into your writing anymore.
Re: Apple's Vision Pro battery pack is hiding the final boss of Lightning cables
#4Can someone check its charging speed please, is it quicker than USB-C or lightning?
This is just for the umbilical cord between the battery and the headset, the battery charges through a standard USB-C port.
Re: Apple's Vision Pro battery pack is hiding the final boss of Lightning cables
#5Semi-dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39210195.
Re: Apple's Vision Pro battery pack is hiding the final boss of Lightning cables
#6Can someone check its charging speed please, is it quicker than USB-C or lightning?
This is just for the umbilical cord between the battery and the headset, the battery charges through a standard USB-C port.
Why will Apple hide a connector like that then? Is it a more power efficient design/connector? Is there a patent?
Re: Apple's Vision Pro battery pack is hiding the final boss of Lightning cables
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is just for the umbilical cord between the battery and the headset, the battery charges through a standard USB-C port.
Why will Apple hide a connector like that then? Is it a more power efficient design/connector? Is there a patent?
They don't want you to use a replacement battery they didn't sell you
Re: Apple's Vision Pro battery pack is hiding the final boss of Lightning cables
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is just for the umbilical cord between the battery and the headset, the battery charges through a standard USB-C port.
Why will Apple hide a connector like that then? Is it a more power efficient design/connector? Is there a patent?
Nobody knows, but my guess: Apple is hiding a test of advanced battery fault detection and monitoring technologies that will eventually show up throughout their battery-powered products. Final Boss Lightning was the simplest, least risky way to support the power delivery and communication needs in the AVP Mark I timeframe.
Re: Apple's Vision Pro battery pack is hiding the final boss of Lightning cables
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why will Apple hide a connector like that then? Is it a more power efficient design/connector? Is there a patent?
They don't want you to use a replacement battery they didn't sell you
Didn't work out so well with the original lightning. Knock-off cables appeared within a year.
Re: Apple's Vision Pro battery pack is hiding the final boss of Lightning cables
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
They don't want you to use a replacement battery they didn't sell you
Didn't work out so well with the original lightning. Knock-off cables appeared within a year.
As there was with the old 30 pin, the maglock and everything else. Apple either doesn't care or never learns.