A Blog on Apple Interconnect

If you are one of the many people who currently use Apple products you will have noticed, no doubt, that the cables you need to connect the device to another are proprietary and cost a lot, too!

It has to be said that Apple has come up with some fantastic innovation. For example, Thunderbolt  Cables deliver a massive 10 Gbps of bi-directional throughput, not to mention the MagSafe Connector which is quite simply one of the best ideas for power interconnection of mobile devices… ever!

It is a fact that Apple, under Steve Jobs, did not just make their interconnect proprietary, they also made some great advances in delivering true technical benefits though innovation.

The question we have to ask is this : what is the future under Apple’s new leadership, and will they continue down the road of creating their own innovative product or adopt existing and future technologies for interconnection?

It takes an awesome amount of time to test and develop new interconnects that are different and/or better than others on the market.  So, without the drive of Mr Jobs to deliver new and better everything, what options are now open to them?

My view is that in the future they will adopt other interconnect and go more mainstream. I just can’t see them wanting to spend so much money and time developing new interconnect when other technical innovations will be more pressing to them.

While it is true that Apple does make a lot of money on it’s cables and adapters, it could simply be because, as an Apple owner, you have to purchase their cables if you want to attach your device to anything.

I may well be wrong on this and only time will tell, however – I do not see any new developments on the horizon and we will just have to wait and see if they can surprise us all and deliver something unique and special.

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