Apple plans new smaller Ultra Accessory Connector (UAC) for Made-for-iPhone accessories – 9to5Mac (Feb 6, 2017)
This is one of those reports where we have the alleged what, but not the official why. The last big example of this was the pervasive rumors of the demise of the 3.5mm headphone jack before the iPhone 7 launched. The rumors turned out to be accurate, but none of them came with an explanation, which meant that for months we had screeds about Apple’s anti-consumer stance without any kind of input or defense from Apple, which hadn’t even announced a change yet. With that in mind, though it’s tempting to complain about yet another new connector technology from Apple (on top of USB-C in MacBooks and Lightning in almost everything else), we don’t know yet exactly what it will be used for. At some point this year, Apple will no doubt give us an explanation, and we’ll have to decide whether it’s a sign of courage, user-hostile, or something in-between. (For what it’s worth, I was pretty positive on Apple’s headphone jack transition.)
via 9to5Mac
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