[adamisen]

It makes a lot of sense to me now. The adapter is tied to iOS's supported video formats. If it will play on the device, it will play on the adapter. The downside being that mirrored content has to go through the not-awesome encoder (at least on the A5). Using the same optimized software stack and shared SoC logic probably eliminates a bunch of headaches and saves money.

If it really works like that it's kind of brilliant. Future devices will have better mirroring output due to better hardware encoders (I haven't scrutinized the mirrored output from an A6, it may already be a lot better than the output pictured in the post). It ought to work with every Lightning device. The only question is future video format support, but since it's limited to 1080P it's probably future proof enough.