Apple's Lightning-to-HDMI Dongle Secretly Packed With ARM, Airplay 392
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from the also-a-reservoir-of-hipness dept.
New submitter joelville writes "After noticing artifacts and a 1600 × 900 image in the output from Apple's new Lightning Digital AV Adapter, the Panic Blog sawed it open and found an ARM chip inside. They suspect that video bypasses the cable entirely and instead uses Airplay to stream three inches to make up for the Lightning connector's shortcomings."
Car analogy (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Car analogy (Score:3, Funny)
How about a NasCar analogy?
They put a restrictor plate so that the cars can't go so fast. Thus they can race in an unsuitable venue to keep the rabid fans happy.
Re:Car analogy (Score:5, Funny)
...that delivers 50HP to the electric drive motor...
...using microwaves.
Re:Car analogy (Score:5, Funny)
How about a NasCar fan analogy? You think they have brains, but when you open up their skulls you find tiny Leprechauns jacking off to chrome hubcap advertisements.
Re:Car analogy (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Car analogy (Score:5, Funny)
. . . it's like opening the hood of your new car, and finding a team of miniature Steve Jobs' bike pedaling the drive train while chanting "Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice," and blowing the smoke of hallucinogenic mushrooms out through the catalytic converter while burning their votes for the new Pope living in a Crystal palace in the sky over Apples new headquarters impounded at a dock in Amsterdam . . .
Who's been sleeping in my brain . . . ?
Smoking mushrooms? Talk about drug abuse.... (Score:5, Funny)
What a waste of psilocybin....
But the real question is what else can it do. (Score:5, Funny)
I think we are missing the point a little here, They released a tiny computer for 50 bucks, now we just need a port of cyanogen for it.
Re:Car analogy (Score:5, Funny)
No, it's like 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife.
Re:Car analogy (Score:5, Funny)
No, it's like 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife.
Don't be silly. There is no spoon.
Re:Car analogy (Score:2, Funny)
google makes hubcaps?
I can't believe no one has asked yet, (Score:4, Funny)
I would have had first post... (Score:4, Funny)
...except my Apple ethernet cable needed a firmware update.
Re:Car analogy (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Car analogy (Score:5, Funny)
How quickly you change gear makes absolutely no difference to performance. *When* you change gear is crucial, and no automatic gearbox can solve that problem.
So what you are saying, is that I can take 17 seconds to change a gear, but if I change it at just the right moment, ill lose no performance at all compared with somebody who changes gears in 1 second?
Sir, I am in awe of your logic.
Re:Car analogy (Score:5, Funny)
The irony is that a song called "Isn't it Ironic?" is not about irony.
Betteridge's Law of song titles clearly applies there.
Re:Car analogy (Score:0, Funny)
Galileo,Galileo, Galileo Galileo Galileo figaro... Magnifico!
Re:Car analogy (Score:4, Funny)
The comedian Ed Byrne said it best: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT1TVSTkAXg [youtube.com]