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His first sentence is "Airplay is not involved", and then he proceeds to tell you that all of the parts of Airplay that are responsible for the drop in quality
by rossjudson 14y ago
His first sentence is "Airplay is not involved", and then he proceeds to tell you that all of the parts of Airplay that are responsible for the drop in quality are involved. Specifically, a compressed video stream is created and that is sent to the SoC for decompression. That compression/decompression cycle is responsible for the quality degradation in the video, and (presumably) the limitations on the output resolution.
"We didn't do this to screw the customer". Sure you did. You have offloaded the cost of a parallel connection, necessary for HDMI, to the adapter. Almost every competing system comes with HDMI built-in. 30 pin connectors could drive HDMI. Lightning can't without having another whole computer in the adapter.
What makes this actively hostile to the customer is Apple's proprietary adapter design. If there was a real, competitive, standardized market for the various adapters, on balance it would be a good deal. But there isn't.
Magsafe is nice, but if you have any of a number of common problems with your Air's power supply/cable, you are in for an $80 charge to buy a new one. Even if the only thing wrong with it is pin spring that's worth pennies.
Because Lightning is coupled to proprietary decoders and Apple patents, it's customer-hostile.
And, as we've seen here, the result has poor quality. If the quality was high, then we might be able to overlook it. We shouldn't.
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- lucian1900 14y agoAirPlay is a network protocol. There is no network here.
- rossjudson 14y agoYes, yes, of course you are right. Except for the hardware video codecs that are necessary to make it work. A protocol requires a combination of software and hardware that can execute its specification.
- Cushman 14y ago> "We didn't do this to screw the customer". Sure you did. You have offloaded the cost of a parallel connection, necessary for HDMI, to the adapter. Almost every competing system comes with HDMI built-in. 30 pin connectors could drive HDMI. Lightning can't without having another whole computer in the adapter. So every competing product charges every single user, most of whom will never use it, for HDMI output. Apple charges (more, to be fair) only those users who need the feature. How this gets interpreted as "screwing the customer" baffles.
- rossjudson 14y agoYou are easily baffled, then. Apple doesn't just change the connector design. It also performs authentication/identification/verification on the objects it is connecting to. If you're Apple and you want to make lots of money from your very popular products, one of the ways you can do that is to make them incompatible with the competitive markets for standardized accessories. You can come up with your own connectors, and you can use patents, litigation, and trade secrets to ensure that you have no competition, and that your users have no choice but to buy high profit accessories from a single source. I trust you are unbaffled!
- Cushman 14y agoIf I'm Apple, I don't need to come up with some kind of trick to make lots of money. I just need to keep releasing best-in-class hardware at competitive prices by leaving out expensive features 99% of my customers will never want. I love my iPhone 5, not because of patents or lawsuits, but because it's really, really well built. I definitely couldn't have gotten it cheaper from anyone else. How many overpriced accessories have I bought? Zero. Because I don't need that crap-- and Apple doesn't make me pay for stuff I don't need.[0] [0] Not counting the Mac Pro, that is.
- JimmaDaRustla 14y agoMy GFs iPhone 5 bent like an aluminum pop can...and it is the most expensive phone on the market!? I'm confused...