(Presumably) Apple engineer comment on Lightning AV adapter design
Ideology has trumped engineering, and as hackers, you shouldn't tolerate it.<p>Frankly, all of this has been obvious all along to any competent engineer, since the moment Apple introduced lightening.  They described it as a serial bus and talked about how it gave more flexibility.   If you think about it for 2 seconds its obviously better to run protocols over a serial bus than to run 30 lines of individual signals, with dedicated lines for analog and dedicated lines for digital in a world where people want HDMI adapters for a connector that originally had firewire signals on it, from a time before HDMI was even common.<p>But this is Apple, so the REAL reality distortion field kicked in-- a tsunami of press acting as if Apple was ripping people off with a $30 adapter, hundreds of mindless conspiracy theories from Apple bashers on Hacker News about how this is to have more control over people and how this once again proves that "open" (defined as google, not actually anything to do with openness) is better than "closed" (defined as Apple, you know the company with the most popular open source operating system in the world?).<p>It's one thing to not know enough engineering for this to have been obvious to you, it's quite another to spread lies and <i>engineering ignorance</i> as a result of your ideological hatred of Apple.  And the latter is basically all I saw on HN about this format. (Which is one of the reasons I write HN off as worthless for months at a time.)