> Apple has refused to give the project permission to license the Lightning charger in a device that includes multiple charging options.
> In fact, even combining Apple’s new Lighting connector with the old 30-pin connector in a charging device was verboten
Emphasis my own. That doesn't read like combining Lighting with the 30-pin was the only issue, but rather the particularly egregious seeming issue. I'm reading that as Apple would not allow Lighting and USB either.
Yeah, if it were my product I would have refunded everybody's money and immediately launched another campaign for the all-USB version of the product.
Announce the new campaign in the same email that was announcing the refund; if people were still interested they could fund the new campaign.
Maybe they do plan on re-launching eventually, or maybe they just don't think there is demand for the compromised product. Or maybe they ran into other issues and are using this as a graceful out. Who knows.
> In fact, even combining Apple’s new Lighting connector with the old 30-pin connector in a charging device was verboten
Emphasis my own. That doesn't read like combining Lighting with the 30-pin was the only issue, but rather the particularly egregious seeming issue. I'm reading that as Apple would not allow Lighting and USB either.