[mikeash]

I agree. I don't even have a device with the connector (yet?), but it seems like a major advantage.

Who are all these people popping out of the woodwork wanting a wired connection from their phone to their TV? I'm sure some people do this sometimes, but so many? Why would you even do that? Perhaps this is uncharitable, but it makes me think that most of the people complaining here have never done it, never will, probably never even thought about doing it before, but are now outraged at the thought that the connector is not 100% perfect for this one uncommon use-case.

[derekp7]

The only two use cases I can think of is playing a video you recorded on your phone at a family gathering, or for playing Netflix on your TV without needing to hook up a Roku or similar.

Edit: third use case, hooking this up to a monitor to turn your smartphone into a desktop computer.

[woobar]

I have dock to HDMI adapter. I use it in hotels to watch movies on big screen TV. Beats the crap on cable TV every time.

[mikeash]

Thanks, that's the first use case that I could actually see using myself. Don't think it's quite enough to get me to go buy a cable, but I can see it being handy for that.

[lostlogin]

Probably the same people who want VGA as it what the corporate world use.

[rscale]

It's especially strange because if you want to do that, you can Airplay the video to the TV, and not have to deal with a cable from your phone to your TV.