September 12, 2012: The Lightning connector replaces Apple’s aging 30-pin interface, a proprietary data and power connector that debuted on the iPod Classic in 2003. The slender and capable new ...

We are gathered today to mark the passing of a dear friend. Apple Lightning was consigned to the earth on September 15, 2020, aged eight years and three days. Lightning lived fast and burned bright, ...

The Apple Vision Pro’s battery cable can be removed using a SIM push pin, revealing an oversized lightning connector and port. The Vision Pro’s battery only delivers power, so it could have achieved ...

Before the iPhone, iPod was Apple’s only portable device, and it had a proprietary 30-pin connector that was first introduced with the 2003 iPod (the first two generations had a FireWire connector ...

Apple’s once-vaunted connector finally departs from the iPhone, but these products still feature the little eight-pin that could. Apple’s once-vaunted connector finally departs from the iPhone, but ...

When Phil Schiller introduced the Lightning connector at the unveiling of the iPhone 5 in September 2012, he called it "a modern connector for the next decade," and with that 10-year mark coming up ...

Feel like you don't have enough cables in your desk drawer? To better fit small devices and to make them easier to use, Apple just introduced a whole new cable. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

That’s right, the new iPad Air might well drop the Lightning port and come with a USB-C connection instead. And one thing’s for certain: there’s gonna be a whole lot more of this sorta news over the ...

Apple has for a very long time been a company that ploughs its own furrow when it comes to peripherals, with expensive proprietary hardware being the order of the day over successive generations of ...

The JBL OnBeat Micro is the first speaker dock that fits the Lightning connection in the new iPhone, iPad, iPad mini and iPod. Richard Trenholm Former Movie and TV Senior Editor Richard Trenholm was ...

Along with the Apple Watch, the iPad family of devices took center stage at the September 2020 Apple Event. Apple revealed the eighth generation of iPads, as well as a new iPad Air 4. When detailing ...

Apple will retain the Lightning connector on the iPhone for the "foreseeable future," with no intention of switching to USB-C, according to reliable analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. We believe that USB-C is ...