Subj : Someone just found a funny surprise hidden inside the Apple Visio
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Thu Feb 01 2024 11:30:05

Someone just found a funny surprise hidden inside the Apple Vision Pro headset

Date:
Thu, 01 Feb 2024 11:23:08 +0000

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A reporter has just discovered that the Vision Pro uses a cable that everyone 
thought Apple had given up on.

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The Apple Vision Pro launches tomorrow, but its secrets are still being 
uncovered by intrepid users. This time, it turns out that the battery pack 
uses a suspiciously familiar-looking cable connector that everyone believed 
was on its last legs. 

This particular surprise was discovered by Inverse journalist Ray Wong. 
According to a post by Wong on X (formerly Twitter) , if you push a SIM card 
remover tool into a small hole on the Vision Pros battery pack, the cable 
pops out  revealing what looks like a bulked-up Lightning connector. 

In case you missed it, Apple has been phasing out the Lightning cable from 
its devices in place of USB-C after the European Union (EU) forced the 
companys hand in an attempt to open up Apples closed-off ecosystem. Getting a 
Lightning cable on a brand-new device like the Vision Pro was probably the 
last thing most of us expected to see. (Image credit: Ray Wong) 

That said, its not quite the Lightning of old. Whereas the standard Lightning 
connector came with eight pins, the Vision Pro edition is a wider 12-pin 
affair, like if the Lightning cable had been hitting the gym in anticipation 
of its EU showdown. We all thought the standard eight-pin version was on the 
way out, but it turns out that wasnt even its final form. Back from the dead 
(Image credit: Ray Wong) 

In one way, this might look like another case of Apples malicious compliance 
after the company drew up controversial third-party app store rules to comply 
with EU legislation. In the case of the Vision Pro, rather than using 
something more standard like USB-C for the headsets battery pack, Apple went 
out and designed an entirely new proprietary connector that no other external 
battery will be able to plug in to. 

Of course, we dont know if thats Apples actual motivation. And its not 
entirely true that you cant use third-party batteries with the Vision Pro  
you just have to plug them into Apples own battery pack rather than the 
headset itself, creating a bulky and unwieldy daisy chain of batteries. 

Still, Apple isnt going to let anything like a little Lightning surprise 
spoil the Vision Pros big day tomorrow. The companys Apple Store on Fifth 
Avenue in New York is dressing up for the occasion, with Apple in the process 
of installing a giant replica Vision Pro inside the outlets famous all-glass 
entrance (via 9to5Mac). 

With the Vision Pro about to land in the hands of users across the US, were 
sure people will start to uncover many more secrets contained within the 
device. After all, with so much high-tech goodness packed into the headset, 
there are bound to be a few more unknowns lurking within as we've discovered 
in our first two days with the headset . You might also like Apple Vision Pro 
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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/computing/someone-just-found-a-funny-surprise-hidden
-inside-the-apple-vision-pro-headset


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