Give it two weeks. Every gas station in the country will have the adapter for $7
That's not how a Lightning cable works. Lightning cables contain a chip that authenticates the connection to the device. Companies that make them have to pay Apple royalty fees in order to market a product that works in place of the OEM Apple cable. A lot of the cheap Chinese cables out there do not work correctly. They either plainly don't work, have connection issues, or worst case scenario, they can fry the power regulator on the logic board.
Samsung phones that explode have wireless charging.
The issue with the S7 was that in some of the batteries (~0.1%), the anode touched the cathode and caused it to overheat. Any battery with a hard short can react violently, anything from an AA battery to a 5V 2a cell phone battery will react in an unfavorable manner, so be careful throwing a lose battery in the same pocket as your car keys.
Everything is in the cloud now. It's natural progression.
Anything important isn't worth storing in the cloud, let alone on a SD card in a phone. For as wonderful and convenient as cloud storage is, a large scale attack on network infrastructure can and does compromise data on a regular basis. As security models get more robust, so do the means to breach them. All cloud computing means is that your data is stored on somebody else's computer. The big reason you should not use cloud applications to store your sensitive data is that you lose control of it.
But it won't be viewed as "cool" by the techy guys till Motorola or Samsung does it.
The majority of what iPhone offers was already pioneered by Moto, Samsung, LG, and Google. They just didn't need to use a week long marketing conference as a means to convince people they can't live without it.
Sheesh, so what once was just commonplace, headphone jack is now $40?
Is this the new trend? or is it just iphone?
It's just the iPhone. Apple's job is to make money, pure and simple. What Apple does to make that money is questionable. While they had a hand in developing (and promoting) open standards such as Micro USB and USB-C, they didn't adopt them because that would mean anybody can make accessories without Apple's blessing and royalty fees. With my phone, I can use
any USB device, with an iPhone, I can't. While Apple's products are very visually appealing, the hoops they make their customers and 3rd party hardware manufacturers jump through are appalling. If Apple used USB from the get-go, you wouldn't have had to buy the same accessories over again due to a different connector.
Apple is kind of like the North Korea of consumer electronics. Apple will never let you install apps from sources other than the App Store. They will never let you install a good ad blocker to keep your apps and web browsing ad free. The company who once announced to the world that they opposed DRM on music has been pushing DRM in every other area of their business. Apple goes out of its way to apply DRM on every piece of software and hardware on the iPhone, even going as far as saying it is illegal for users to install software that comes from anywhere other than the official App Store. Apple is the only consumer electronics company that imposes censorship over the apps the end user can install. If you can't do what you want with it, and it's well within the capabilities of the device, do you really even own it? How would the people of this forum feel if Ford, GM, or Chrysler had stipulations as part of "owning" their products? They'd all be running to the nearest import dealership.
