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Lightning Adapter Pricing

September 13, 2012
Adapter Pricing

I don’t get this… how is the adapter $10 more than the cable itself? I’ve accumulated a ton of 30-pin cables; I can only assume that this adapter is intended more for devices like docks, etc. rather than for the cables themselves.

Hopefully Monoprice will have good options on cables and/or adapters in the near future.

UPDATE: Kellan has an interesting post on this.

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  1. Dougal Campbell
    View September 13, 2012

    I could have sworn that during the announcements I saw somebody say that the adapter would be around $10, which didn’t sound too unreasonable. But $30? That’s nuts. Especially considering that you can buy a 5-pack of the standard 30-pin cables from Amazon for less than $5.

  2. Dougal Campbell
    View September 13, 2012

    Just ran across this, and had to share it:
    http://www.b3ta.com/board/10847027

  3. Patrick Quinn-Graham
    View September 14, 2012

    It costs more because it does more – it also has to provide a DAC (lightening doesn’t do analog audio) and appropriate magic to make the other pins do their thing to the right combo in lightening land.

    The USB version presumably is a direct one USB wire to one lightening pin mapping or something simple like that.

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