USB-C iPhone Sells for $86,000 On Ebay
An iPhone modified to charge and transfer data over USB-C would be a dream come true for some, and the world’s first managed to prove the demand for such a device in a heated auction that ended in a massive increase over the price of an unmodified device. However,Apple’s controlling approach to its products means it comes with a major catch. Appledevices have a long history of requiring proprietary connectors, perhaps most infamously with the Lightning cables used with the iPhone line; while the vast majority of competitor devices use standardized connections such as USB-C, Apple uses its own specific pairing of port and cable....