Comment Re:Dear Apple (Score 1) 471
I wonder, what's to stop iPhone 5 users from plugging in a Lightning cable into one of the powered USB ports on this device? Nothing? So why the need to cancel it?
Well, you clearly didn't RTFA. If you had, you'd have read this:
"This is not necessarily the end of the Edison Junior’s portable power project. Siminoff told me that the team will be re-focusing on a device that supports Android phones, tablets, and Apple products, if backers wish to use a Lightning-to-USB connector, or an older 30-pin connector. They’ll only build that device, however, if the crowdfunding community wants it."
The problem was that they'd promised a specific product to their backers, and they couldn't deliver it because Apple pulled the plug (pardon the pun).
Incidentally, what most people are missing is that Apple didn't prevent licensing of the lightning adapter by itself, but rather of the lightning adaptor in combination with other plug options. How crazy is that??