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some of you may remember how, when Apple killed the 30-pin iPod connector in favour of Lightning, their new video output dongle for iPads was actually a tiny Arm SoC running XNU that took in video over USB 2 and outputted HDMI, with low resolution and compression artifacts
well, I wondered if the new USB-C iPhones got a dongle that at least uses USB 3.
but no! Apple did the sensible thing for once!
all the USB-C iPhones have DisplayPort Alternate Mode!
thank you European Union for making Apple bring back native video output to the iPhone ;)
if they hadn't done that they wouldn't have been able to make the MacBook Neo, I suppose, depending on how far back they were planning that
this is a fascinating instance of technological regression, right? the iPhone 4S (2011) could do native HDMI over the 30-pin dock connector, then this was removed in the iPhone 5 (2012), with native DisplayPort only appearing an entire decade later in the iPhone 15 (2023)
@hikari oh wow dang, I remember having HDMI output over microUSB from an HTC One.. with a special "MHL" dongle.. wtf, these days "a phone from 2011-2013 could do hdmi" sounds sooo implausible.