02-03-2017, 07:07 AM
DeusxMac wrote:
[quote=freeradical]
I think you need to define what you believe a dongle is. Plugging in your phone to me does not qualify as a dongle. Nor does a USB hub for a desktop computer. To me, a dongle is something that translates one protocol to another, especially for laptops.
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As discussed in an earlier thread, a cable with two different flavors of the same interface fittings on each end (like USB-C and USB-A) is not a "dongle".
To convert Thunderbolt to HDMI or Ethernet, that would take a "dongle"
So how do you plug in an iPhone? To my knowledge they still ship with a USB cable. Sure you can swap that for a usb-c to lightening, right? But the charger is still regular usb so you either have to haul two cables around, or a dongle.