An accessory maker has managed to chip in the Lightning connector is the iPhone 5 after it. This allows counterfeit accessories for the device fabricated.
The chip in the new USB cable and charging cable for iPhone 5 ensures among others that the cable at both ends can be inserted in the device. It does not matter how the cable into the designated loading point protrudes into the iPhone since the chip will recognize this and then activates the appropriate ports for the data or for loading.
So far proved very difficult to make this chip after order accessories from other manufacturers can produce. now would succeed his.
A Chinese manufacturer has managed to imitate the chip and thus with its own cable and docking station to come up. This has the advantage that now other manufacturers such accessories can go and that prices will come down soon. Currently Apple charges 30 euros for a converter from the old connection to the new connection. It is unclear when the Chinese mass production will begin.
