Last year the Apple company launched the technology lightning for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, implementing it in iPhone 5, iPad 4, iPad Mini and iPod Touch 5G. The new technology of Apple's cables and iDevices is proprietary to the company and can only be used by accessory manufacturers who meet a very strict set of rules. This did not stop the Chinese to clone her and to produce accessories that are theoretically compatible with this technology, but Apple could leave them with many products in stock through a simple iOS update.
When a hardware maker signs up with Apple's MFi Program, for companies that make accessories for Apple products, it orders a Lightning connector component from Apple to use in designing the accessory. The connectors have serial numbers for each accessory maker, and they contain authentication chips that communicate with the phones. When the company submits its accessory to Apple for testing, Apple can recognize the serial number.
The chip inside the Lightning connector can be reverse engineered — copied by another company — but it probably wouldn't work as well as the one that came from Apple, Mr. Howe said. Apple could also theoretically issue software updates that would disable Lightning products that did not use its chips, he said. "That's one thing Apple is good at: controlling the user experience from end to end," Mr. Howe said. "If you're buying something in an Apple store, it's gone through all this rigorous testing."
Those from Mophie they detailed the strict rules that Apple imposes on accessory manufacturers, but he also mentioned that Apple can block the functionality of some accessories if they are not recognized by iOS. The original cables have a unique code that the iDevices recognize, and if Apple wants, it can block the functionality of accessories that do not have a code, or whose code is not recognized, and at that moment only a possible jailbreak could solve the situation.
Although it is unlikely that Apple will block the functionality of counterfeit Lightning accessories, anything is possible if the situation calls for it.
