The charging cable of the Huawei family can meet all the devices in one place. And Apple's products, whether it is an iPhone, or an iPad, Mac series, the charging cable is three and not universal. So why can't Apple unify the charging interface?
The answer is simple, it is: cut the leeks!
Apple has a set of MFI certification on the charger interface, if any manufacturer wants Apple's lightning charging cable, it must get MFI certification.
If you want to get certification, you have to pay money, that is to say, Apple has no cost, and you can harvest a lot of money just by collecting the certification fee of MFI, and you can earn money while standing.
Of course, Apple is not the light map of the little certification fee, we think about why Apple set up MFI certification, old fans can definitely answer, Apple is through MFI to get the right to make standards to monopolize the industry.
Let's combine this move of Apple to cancel the charger, Apple users in addition to buying MFI certified chargers, only left to go to Apple's official website to buy.
Looking at this set of data, since the iPhone no longer comes with headphones and chargers, Apple's related costs have decreased by about $6.6 billion, while Apple's revenue from selling these accessories is about $300 million, which means that Apple has made $6.9 billion more than before, that is, 44 billion yuan, by canceling accessories.
Therefore, such a high profit Apple will certainly not give up, there is also Apple and the EU to play twice rogue things, in 2009, the EU will all mobile phone manufacturers meeting, hope that they can unify the charger socket to avoid waste.
Apple promised well, and as a result, Apple teased the European Union with a transfer joint, and then its own plan was completely feasible.
In 2014, the European Union revised the agreement, requiring Apple to truly unify the charging port, and as a result, Apple launched a lawsuit against ten thousand texts, saying that the EU stifles scientific and technological innovation, if the charging port is the same, who will break the convention in the future and innovate better things? So is Apple really because of innovation?
As we all know, the core function of the charger is to charge and transmit data, the latest iPhone13pro max can achieve 27w charging, and type-c charger can achieve 120w charging at the fastest, a full 5 times worse
Speaking of transfer rates, type-c's transfer rate can now reach up to USB 3.2 speeds, that is, 40Gbps, 5GB per second, while Lightning is transmitted at USB 2.0 speeds, up to 60 MB per second.
So Apple says using lightning only for tech innovation? Obviously not! So can we bypass MFI and do it ourselves?
Of course not, we took the Apple charging head apart and you can see that on this soybean-sized place, there are four chips neatly arranged, and it has everything it needs for a communication chip.
Apple is through it and the chip on the device "to the secret code" to confirm each other's identity, once detected that the data line "suspicious", Apple mobile phone will immediately disconnect the circuit, choose to strike.
Obviously, it is a cutting-edge technology giant with innovation as its signature, and under the leadership of Cook in recent years, there have been no innovative breakthroughs in science and technology. Stick to your own old, relatively backward standards, completely disregarding the user experience.
Such an apple is really not what Joe's helper wants. So, do you think Apple is using lightning for innovation or to make money?
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