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Accidental Tech Podcast

79: Tip Ring Ring Sleeve

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.32.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2014

⏱️ 95 minutes

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0:00.0

Your new shows are good man. No thanks. I haven't heard it yet so I don't have any complaints.

0:08.1

That might be the most John Seracusa thing I've ever heard and I've said that phrase more than once in

0:12.9

my life. Well you got you got to keep pushing the bar forward if you want to succeed.

0:16.4

My goodness. I haven't heard it yet so I don't have any complaints. I don't even know where to go

0:21.8

from here. So we have some follow up mostly about lightning cables and a galore really and that

0:28.4

begins with an image of a lightning cable with a reversible USB connector. John wants to tell me

0:35.6

about this. Yeah this is confusing if you just hear it but what it's talking about is a cable

0:41.2

that you have now that you use to connect to your lightning connector enabled iOS device. So it's

0:47.2

got a little lightning connector on one end and it's got a regular plain old big fat USB thing

0:50.8

on the other end and they're not changing the lightning connector and the rumor is on these

0:55.2

rumors sites that they're going to change the USB end to be reversible and they do that by

1:00.4

like if you look at a USB connector head on it's like there's an empty part and then a part filled

1:04.3

with plastic sort of and this sort of takes the empty part. It draws a line through the center of

1:09.8

the connector and then flips it. So now there's an empty part on top empty part on bottom and plastic

1:13.8

part of the middle and this type of connector is not like an Apple invention and it's not a new thing

1:18.4

I'd spend around I don't know for how many for a couple of years I think I've seen these. How long

1:23.2

have these things been around have you guys seen them before? Never seen it. I hadn't seen it before

1:26.6

this but someone did point out it quickly after this article came out that some other company actually

1:31.2

has a patent on it and they're then they already sell cables like this. Yeah it was I think the reason

1:36.2

I saw it was like back on hypercritical so long ago when I was talking about the USB connector and

1:40.2

how I hated how it was externally symmetrical but internally asymmetrical everybody sent me links.

1:44.9

So look at this company selling these things that are externally and internally symmetrical

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