Why doesn't Apple have their own branded HDMI to Mini cable?

I just bought a second 27" monitor (not a Thunder Display) with HDMI connectivity, but I have to buy an off-brand cable to connect to my iMac. What gives?

jkevinballard wrote:
I just bought a second 27" monitor (not a Thunder Display) with HDMI connectivity, but I have to buy an off-brand cable to connect to my iMac. What gives?
I think it gets to what Apple has decided to focus on as their core products. Apple tends now to focus on manufacturing things that are unique. The monitors that Apple sells have some unique aspects, and they do sell the unique cables for those (thunderbolt, mini-DV, etc.). Since the ports on the Apple computers are unique (thunderbolt, mini-DV), Apple does sell an adaptor for those, but the adaptor just gets you to an industry standard interface (e.g. HDMI, VGA). Once you are where you can buy industry provided standard products (e.g. HDMI cable), Apple tends to not try to sell products that compete in that market. If Apple sold a unique HDMI monitor still, I think it would be also selling the cable you are asking about, but Apple is out of that market now. Similarly, Apple doesn't make its own hard drives, you have to buy those from third parties.
Apple doesn't sell its own brand of USB-USB cable, but it does sell the unique cable that is USB on one end and Apple iphone/ipod connector on the other end. Again, that's a unique interface.
That's the logic, I think, behind Apple's position. I don't think it's entirely consistent, but it's probably how they are thinking about this.

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mannyace wrote:
Thanks for the response.
So I basically won't run into any trouble? I
There should be no issues. Its designed to work like that. You don't change Apple IDs just because you get a new device.
mannyace wrote:
Thanks for the response.
Is there any chance that the phones can fall out of sync?
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mannyace wrote:
Thanks for the response.
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mannyace wrote:
Also, something i forgot to ask initially: Should I update the iPhone 5 to iOS 8 first or does that not matter?
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I have Mac Mini with Lion Server running 10.8.2 and an iPhone 4.
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@survivethestorm.
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It appears as you have described above, customer support has indicated by creating a separate Apple Account for each person, this fixes the texting problem? Have there been any issues then with syncing apps, music etc after creating the accounts? I currently dont use iCloud, I simply sync each device on connection via usb to the computer, and choose what is being synced to each device. I like to control (at this point anyway) what is actually going on to the kids devices. Do you know if there is a limit as to how many 'Apple Accounts' can share the one iTunes Library? I realise the number of devices is unlimited to the one account, but just wondered if the number of Apple Accounts changes things?
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Many thanks.

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