Remember last year, when we saw Apple first introduce the Lightning connector? Besides the obvious headaches that affected Apple users with existing 30-pin accessories, and the requisite head-shaking it got from the rest of the smartphone community, having happily embraced micro USB, there was a sinister new problem it introduced: the authentication chip. While it sat there for the first year, not really making its presence known, the arrival of iOS 7 saw Apple start taking advantage of the chip’s abilities,
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