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Cheap Third-Party 'Lightning' Headphones Are Often Cheap Bluetooth Headphones

Link to: https://x.com/joshwhiton/status/1796222090216886682

Commenters on the thread on X are blaming the supposedly high licensing fees Apple charges for Lightning peripherals, but I don’t think that’s it exactly. I think the problem these cheap manufacturers are solving isn’t that Lightning is expensive to license, but that it’s difficult to implement for audio. This makes me wonder though: do dirt-cheap USB-C headphones work the same way, or do they tend to include a DAC for actual wired playback?

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