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Apple’s Vision Pro battery pack is hiding the final boss of Lightning cables (www.theverge.com)

submitted 8 months ago by L4s to c/technology

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Apple’s Vision Pro battery pack is hiding the final boss of Lightning cables::The Vision Pro’s battery connector is removable once you press the eject button, and it uses a 12-pin connector that looks like a wider version of a Lightning cable.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Ray Wong of Inverse discovered a hidden joy today: The Apple Vision Pro power cable connects to the battery with what may well be Lightning’s final form.

Using a SIM removal tool, he pushed into a small hole in the silver external battery pack of the Vision Pro next to the cable, and...

Out it popped, revealing what looks like a bigger, 12-pin version of the connector Apple’s iPhone moved away from last year.

Nilay Patel, Verge editor-in-chief and Vision Pro reviewer, gave it a shot, and what do you know?

Like a Palpatinian twist, somehow, Lightning returned, with all the hallmarks of Apple’s outgoing connector, just wider and with more pins.

Whether this was Apple intentionally propping up the crumbling walls of its garden or it’s just trolling everyone after the EU essentially forced it to switch the iPhone to USB-C, it’s a funny discovery:

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Like a Palpatinian twist, somehow, Lightning returned,

Lmao

[–] dual_sport_dork 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And that's the joke we went with? Not the quip that was tailor made for exactly this situation?

Everyone's right, journalism is trash these days.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Eh true, but they're attempting to write for a wider audience than just the jrpg enthusiasts.