Lightning Apple Lightning 2 Based on Thunderbolt 4 Having seen the surge in Thunderbolt 4 and its backwards-compatibility to Thunderbolt 3 (useful for full bandwith, non-breakout (via hubs) buses), my proposal for Lighting 2 to be based on USB4 should be superseded by this Thunderbolt 4 proposal.
Lightning Featured Apple Lightning 2.0 Proposal Lighting should be an Apple-private form of USB 4.0. Full USB 4.0 can fit into a modified Lightning port.
Apple Inc. iPhone Wireless Charging, USB Type-C, Thunderbolt, USB 3.2, USB Type-D (New) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- USB Type-C is very possible; however, the USB Type-C connector is larger than the lightning connector. Lightning has eight pins. USB Type-C has 24 pins. Thunderbolt 3 has 20 pins. The USB Type-C connector would be able to carry full Thunderbolt 3 and Lightning pins which would be interesting
