To: rnsmth who wrote (21848 ) 9/15/2012 9:25:50 PM From: zax 2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) | Respond to Sad Sack, I think of you as lying sack would describe you. I am excersizing great restraint in leaving off the additional two word you so clealy deserve . genius ). RS232-Serial preceded the USB standard. Apple's sheep-milker port doesn't. You are deliberately misleading, as a serial break out cable isn't required for charging as your post claims. It is intended to support legacy standards and peripherals rips off its customers for to support its own proprietary , legacy standard (also incompatible with legacy standards), and the 15 other dongles that would be requred to actually break out a usable legacy serial port from that (to support many commong peripherals that even flaming fanboys like to use). I know first hand that those black cables are far less inexpensive, all generically made, don't encrypt the data streams and break out additional ports for the expressed purpose of interfacing with inexpensive, generic, widely available peripherals. intended to break out legacy ports claiming they are required for charging, cables that are trivially reproduced (a key reason those generic cables cost so little ). And you compare open standard to closed, propietary encrypted, obscenely priced, dimwitted fanboy allowance milking standards. There are two cables on the right because of a misstatement of functionality, and more importanly because alternative manufacturers cannot make cables on the right side of that picture by design, so that you, if you are a dumb enough manufactured for me.
