{"id":2861,"date":"2014-06-10T16:35:34","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T19:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/?p=2861"},"modified":"2015-11-18T10:06:23","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T13:06:23","slug":"boom-final-follow-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2014\/06\/10\/boom-final-follow-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Boom: Final Follow-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My\u00a02012 <a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/09\/23\/boom-pins\/\" target=\"_blank\">series of posts<\/a> about Apple&#8217;s Lightning connector was (and still is!) the most-visited material here on the <a title=\"Interlude\" href=\"\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Solipsism Gradient<\/a>: over 120 thousand visits so far, and counting. Most comments elsewhere about the posts have been positive.<\/p>\n<p>Several\u00a0of my surmises about the connector have since been confirmed; my main miss was that I supposed all 8 pins to be dynamically assignable. The actual pinout has not been officially released, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lightning_(connector)\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia article<\/a> seems reasonably accurate there. Lower-cost 3rd-party Lightning cables and accessories have arrived and users seem to have quieted\u00a0down with complaints about the connector.<\/p>\n<p>Last month my new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ipad-air\/\" target=\"_blank\">iPad Air<\/a> arrived and now I\u00a0finally am in a position to comment on the actual user experience of the Lightning connector.<\/p>\n<p>Build quality of the Apple cables and adapters is excellent\u00a0&#8211; I bought an extra USB cable as well as the SD, VGA and HDMI adapters. I&#8217;ve never had one of the old 30-pin cables or adapters fail (one of them is 10 years old!) and the new ones look to be even more robust.<\/p>\n<p>Inserting or removing \u00a0the connector gives strong positive feedback &#8211; there is a distinct &#8220;click&#8221; and it needs more force than required by the old connector. In fact, I had to get used to not simply pulling the iPad off; some hilarity ensued when I didn&#8217;t notice it was plugged in and attempted to walk away.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, I can now confidently say that Lightning is a Good Thing\u2122. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> Yet Another Follow-Up \u2014 this time <a href=\"\/blog\/2015\/11\/18\/boom-the-return\/\" target=\"_blank\">about Lightning and USB3<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My\u00a02012 series of posts about Apple&#8217;s Lightning connector was (and still is!) the most-visited material here on the Solipsism Gradient: over 120 thousand visits so far, and counting. Most comments elsewhere about the posts have been positive. Several\u00a0of my surmises about the connector have since been confirmed; my main miss was that I supposed all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[15,11],"class_list":["post-2861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-hardware","tag-ipad","tag-iphone"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-K9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}