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makomk on March 2, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Lightning Digital AV Adapter Surprise

I'm not sure they even bothered to create their own interface. All the evidence so far is consistent with Lightning being USB 2.0 OTG plus a few extra pins for a lockout chip bundled into a proprietary connector. (More accurately, the usual multiplexed USB 2.0 and TTL serial that smartphones tend to have.)

coob on March 2, 2013 [–]

Lightning is much more than that. It is configured thusly at the moment, it has much more potential.

wmf on March 2, 2013 | [–]

But apparently it doesn't have the potential to be configured in MHL mode or something similar.

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