and the original iPad mini later the same year. The format became entrenched, even making its way to headphones and Mac accessories. Lightning cables and docks became synonymous with living in the ...

A cradle with a vertical plug (Apple 8-pin Lightning or Apple 30-pin) onto which an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch is docked to play music and/or to charge the unit. The dock is built into self ...

The Lightning connector was a revolutionary 8-pin, reversible port that replaced the bulky 30-pin dock connector found ... starting with the iPad Pro in 2018. USB-C brought several advantages ...

It looks really elegant and just being able to drop the iPad down onto the dock, without fiddling with a lightning cable, would be great. But the lengthy charge time and hefty price are dampening my ...

The Apple device contains the socket, and the cable or docking station has the plug. In 2012, the original 30-pin analog+digital interface was replaced with the 8-pin all-digital Lightning connector.