You’re right, Apple never moved lightning past USB-2 speeds. Still seems weird to do things the way they did, unless it was just to reuse some part they already

You’re right, Apple never moved lightning past USB-2 speeds. Still seems weird to do things the way they did, unless it was just to reuse some part they already had in another device, thus saving costs. The need for compression is a good point. I hadn’t thought of that. But you’re right other existing parts should have worked if chosen, right? Weird. Just such a fun day on Twitter when it was discovered that what we had all assumed was just a relatively simple adapter was a whole SoC running its own firmware doing this job.