The iPhone is easy to use, but it still has a lot of unsatisfactory places. The "ancestral" Lightning interface is one of them.
Once upon a time, the Lightning interface was also considered the industry's advanced technology, but with the continuous development of technology, now it has lagged behind the times and has become the object of people's dislike. In order to make the iPhone embrace the "advanced" Type-C interface, there is even a foreign engineer who has transformed his iPhone into a Type-C interface mobile phone. It is conceivable that domestic and foreign users have a consistent view of the Lightning interface.
The iPhone maverick sticks to the Lightning interface, which makes us suffer in many scenarios. For example, when traveling, I bring an iPhone and iPad but only bring the charging cable of the iPhone; for example, I do not have a charging kit when I go out, and my companion is an Android mobile phone user.
These scenes make people feel anxious when they think about it.
However, in the near future, this situation may gradually decrease. The reason, of course, is not that Apple's conscience found that it is necessary to use the Type-C port on the iPhone, but a new invention from domestic manufacturers: a charger with a Lightning port.
Usually, our commonly used chargers use Type-A and Type-C interfaces to power the device, but this charger from a domestic manufacturer adds a Lightning interface that supports powering the device.
From the following figure, we can clearly see the configuration of this charger, from top to bottom is Type-A, Type-C interface and Lightning interface.
Many small partners may be curious: Is the Lightning port not used for charging the iPhone, and does it still have the function of outputting electricity?
In fact, this is just because of the inherent thinking caused by daily practical scenes. In fact, the chip of the Lightning interface supports reverse current transmission, which makes the implementation of Lightning to Type-C charging possible.
Speaking of which, some small partners may still not be very clear about what this charger does. Simply put, when we travel with an iPhone and an iPad, but accidentally forget the charging cable of the iPad, we can plug the charging cable of the iPhone in reverse: plug the Lightning port into the charger, and then plug the Type-C interface into the iPad. In this way, even if we only bring a thread, we can happily use the iPad iQiyi, oh no, productivity.
The same is true for Android devices and other devices that support the Type-C interface.
Or we can be more confident, every time we go out, we only need to bring an iPhone charging cable, and then bring this charger.
As for the iPad's charging cable? Who cares.
However, for this charger, Xiaohei still has some questions to be solved. For example, what is the upper limit of the reverse output current of the Lightning interface, Xiao Black did not query the data, after all, there are very few people who can think of this scheme, and there are no test results for reference. Xiao Black doesn't expect to be able to use it to charge the MacBook Pro or even the game book.
At present, this charger has not yet begun mass production, and we can only look around for a while. Xiao black is still looking forward to the future of this charger, after all, it solves the pain points of many users.
For Apple, the huge profits brought to him by the Lightning interface are definitely not something that can be easily abandoned. As a result, it's hard to expect to see an iPhone with a Type-C interface anytime soon — even though people are looking forward to it every year.
Therefore, in a short period of time, we can only look at these "engineers' tricks" over the eyes, and by the way, criticize Apple's stubborn conservatism every year.
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