Apple reportedly Reduced Licensing Costs for manufacturers of accessories, which are preparing formal tools for iPhone, iPad or iPod. According Mac to Otakara this reduction Apply to the Thunderbolt cable, as well as other accessories that are part of the Apple MFI application.
Apple reportedly
Reduced Licensing Costs for manufacturers of accessories, which are preparing
formal tools for iPhone, iPad or iPod. According Mac to Otakara this reduction
Apply to the Thunderbolt cable, as well as other accessories that are part of
the Apple MFI application.
Made for iPod (MFI) was
launched in 2005, licensing and quality control program, Which allowed the iPod
accessory makers to ship products with their Apple certified “Made for iPod
"label. Running Apple reportedly paid the companies wanted that register
to participate in this program based on the 10 % tax on the wholesale cost of
the device.
Apple has expanded its
program to include iPhone and iPad MFIs, as under these devices have been added
to the company’s product portfolio with the Apple Thunderbolt cable Introduced
last 2012 classified program guidelines for serialized authentication chip
embedded links. Last year’s Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple has once
again extended the licenses include game controllers for iOS devices.
These game controllers generally
come with a higher price than expected consumer with some of the prices and
quality requirements placed on processed through Apple MFI program fault. One
of the high -level controller SteelSeries Stratus, and still see the $ 20 price
cut a few months of notification and launch last month , and MFI license fees ,
of course , is not accounted for all the price drop, it can made without a
little SteelSeries Flexibility to its price competitiveness .
