Fake Lightning Bluetooth Headphones

I return it all, run to catch my plane, and spend half the flight wondering what planet I'm on. Until finally back home, I do some research and figure out what's going on: A scourge of cheap "lightning" headphones and lightning accessories is flooding certain markets, unleashed by unscrupulous Chinese manufacturers who have discovered an unholy recipe: True Apple lightning devices are more expensive to make. So instead of conforming to the Apple standard, these companies have made headphones that receive audio via bluetooth — avoiding the Apple specification — while powering the bluetooth chip via a wired cable, thereby avoiding any need for a battery. They have even made lightning adapters using the same recipe: plug-in power a fake lightning dongle that uses bluetooth to transmit the audio signal literally 1.5 inches from the phone to the other end of the adapter. In these remote markets, these manufacturers have no qualms with slapping a Lightning / iPhone logo on the box while never mentioning bluetooth, knowing that Apple will never do anything.

The image is a text-based anecdote about discovering counterfeit Lightning headphones and adapters in remote markets. The joke is that the supposedly wired accessories secretly use Bluetooth, with the Bluetooth chip powered through a cable, and transmit audio only about 1.5 inches—an absurdly overcomplicated workaround made to imitate Apple products cheaply. It is shared as a reaction to bizarre counterfeit technology and ingenious but ridiculous engineering. EN: The image is a text-based anecdote about discovering counterfeit Lightning headphones and adapters in remote markets. The joke is that the supposedly wired accessories secretly use Bluetooth, with the Bluetooth chip powered through a cable, and transmit audio only about 1.5 inches—an absurdly overcomplicated workaround made to imitate Apple products cheaply. It is shared as a reaction to bizarre counterfeit technology and ingenious but ridiculous engineering.

• @gentoomemes / 11631 2024-06-03
• @dustinthehead / 20802 2024-06-10