Trammell HudsonFound a #cursed Lightning to "wired" headphone jack adapter that requires Bluetooth (to avoid paying Apple's MFI tax)
Habrok@th Some weeks ago, I read a thread of someone who wanted to buy an adapter for wired headphones at an airport but was unable to find one that did not require Bluetooth, although it wasn't stated on the packages. For all the not tech-savvy people in the store, the connection between headphones and Bluetooth was obvious, for the tech-savvy, it simply hurt.
jomo
Bee O'Problem 
nicole mikołajczyk 🔜 linux app summit ➡️ piwo ➡️ gpnI recall he didn’t actually get that the problem is that Apple makes it more financially viable to put a fucking bluetooth receiver in cheap wired earphones
Greg@mkljczk @beeoproblem @Habrok42 @th he was a developer of some bluetooth stack or hardware, iirc, and the main issue people had was his condescension towards the store employees who knew what the product actually was.
Reid 
@th wireless wires are the most cursed shit that only the greed of scummy corporations could give birth to
Andrew@th I’m surprised this is cheaper than cloning the actual data hookup. All the lightning MFi stuff got cracked ages ago
Hanneke
Григорий КлюшниковAndrew, I'm not that surprised. You'd probably have to have an ASIC made. That's expensive. The protocol might not be practical to bit-bang on an MCU that's cheap enough and small enough to fit into an adapter. Meanwhile you can buy bluetooth audio ICs by the bucket for pennies.
Andrew Snare@th Do you happen to recall their price?
octoturt
Christopher@th is it to avoid the mfi tax or is that it’s cheaper to use the Bluetooth stack instead of including a DAC?
Sander
mmu_man
Bence Varga
[Yaseenist] CauseOfBSOD@th its like the direct opposite of that 4chan meme
wired device
looks inside
wireless device