Hi all. I too agreed with the statement of Apple being stupid. However, I found the following link that clears this up. http://mashable.com/2012/12/25/pop-charger-brought-back/ Looks like the project has gotten the "Green Light" from Apple. Guess they didn't like the bad press. Enjoy, Matthew Campbell.'t 2013-01-06, at 12:54 AM, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello List, > > I just listened to the latest episode of the Today in iOS Podcast. One item > Rob covered was a case where a Kickstarter project was shot down by Apple and > the guys who came up with the project had to refund $140,000 which they > already received in pledges. What was the project? It was for a charging > station which had both a 30-Pin dock and a Lightning dock. Even Rob from > Today in iOS who is a huge Apple proponent couldn’t believe this pettiness. I > personally don’t have a device yet with a Lightning connector, but I always > defended Apple’s decision to introduce a new connector. It’s smaller, you can > plug it in either way and if it had to be done then it had to be done. > However, to go out and prevent an entrepreneur or entrepreneurs to bring a > product to market which many people would have appreciated shows no grace > whatsoever especially since it’s not like Apple was offering something like > that themselves. > > So, here it goes, a big Boo to Apple. > > > Regards, > Sieghard > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
