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Is there no lightning to USB A adapter? Seems a bit wasteful to buy another key for a currently very limited ability in iOS.
by sebazzz 7y ago
Is there no lightning to USB A adapter? Seems a bit wasteful to buy another key for a currently very limited ability in iOS.
- ganoushoreilly 7y agoWhile limited today, there are a bunch of applications in beta testing that leverage the key. I personally have a small keychain usb-c to A adapter that I use with my Yubikey Neo. I guess all in they decided a Lightning and USB A option wasn't as smart given most mobile devices are Lightning or USBC moving forward.
- throw0101a 7y agoThe smartphone choices are Android and iOS, and those use USB-C and Lightning (respectively). I think they can actually reduce their offerings to two: * USB-C and USB-A * USB-C and Lightning NFC on both variants.
- lxgr 7y agoThere is, but the number of USB classes supported by iOS is limited. I think implementing new ones is not possible for applications without licensing MFi (which is incurring fees per unit sold, as far as I understand). The way they are doing it, Yubico doesn't need to pay/pass through that fee on each key sold, but only on the ones actually likely to be used with iOS devices.