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Apple’s headphone adapter for older iPhones sells out, possibly never to return (arstechnica.com)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The end of Lightning is nigh. It’s a bummer for folks with older phones, though.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (4 children)

“Third party opportunity.”

[–] PennyRoyal 5 points 5 days ago (3 children)

There’s untold 3rd party ones for pennies on eBay

[–] yonder 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I thought the dongle contains the DAC, meaning that if the electronics inside the dongle are shit, that means your audio will sound like shit.

For the active choice that apple made to remove the headphone jack but not use USB-C, they should be keeping stock of the adapters longer than just a few years.

[–] PennyRoyal 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Interesting, I’ve always assumed that it’s still in the phone, as I’ve got cheap cables that are literally just a lightning plug on one end, and a jack on the other that work fine. That said, it would make sense for them to remove both the jack socket and the DAC at the same time, so it’s odd that the cheap ones work.

[–] yonder 3 points 3 days ago

I know the USB-C ones are just a normal usb device and will work with any device. I assume that the ones with lghtning work in the same way.