New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

Current dock connector sucks, is ungainly and too wide and has been for years. Only real plus to it is the fact it's really short, but that's more of a liability than an asset and probably why the official Apple cables have little clips -- no space on the connector for any sort of friction/retention piece that works well.

I'll be pissed off when I finally switch phones, but... death to the old connector, long live new connector.

I don't think I've ever used a dock connector! Just the basic power cord deal. So no skin off my nose here.

uhhh... that IS the dock connector ned

*shakes head in disgust*

Whatever that thing is, then.

I just.... no, Ned, no.

i dont like the old connector, never felt right

i welcome u new connector into the world no matter what mean old bullies say

Why thank you.

*sighs*

otm, technology changes, if you maniacs had your way iphones would have serial ports

it's not being driven by technology changes, this. if it were they would have moved to the mini-USB port that everyone else is standardizing on (it's law in the EU).

It's almost as if the connector is a technology and they are changing it due to a desire in the company

exactly: changing it due to bullshit Apple proprietary desires, rather than changing it because of new things developments in technology allow them to do.

the old one was proprietary, the new one is just smaller

i mean counldnt they be changing it because the old one is a bit shit

wait until the ninth pin on the new one turns out to be a magic thunderbolt connector, that'll show us all

The replacement doesn't have to be proprietary. Scrapping ADB for USB pissed a (vastly) smaller number of people off, but at least they could say they were going to a standard so everyone would win in the end.

Don't replace something maybe a bit shit with something that's just a different kind of shit.

But eh this is all rumour anyway i guess

I heard the iPhone 5 will plug directly into your genitals and charge itself off of gametes

"We'd like to announce we've licensed our cord technology to Monster Cable."

i just bought a car an i want to get a connector installed in it and now i am totally frozen so i admit i am a lil pissed, i think ill prob just get the old connector so i can keep my ipod touch in there as a dedicated unit, and im sure there will be an adaptor if i need to connect a new thing, but maybe i should just get the new thing and use an adaptor for the ipod in which case i have to wait, o jeez

"We'd like to announce we've licensed our cord technology to Monster Cable."

sounds awful

powered by the gametes you pee

what do u guys think abt my car problem, advise me, whats the way forward

Crash car, collect insurance, get new car.

noted

i thnk u shld install the old connector and then bitch abt the new one.

honestly tho probably the new one, assuming they make an old>new converter (which they might not, knowing them)

who knows what the new one even does besides charge, maybe its better than mini-usb in some way. but staying the same because a bunch of hotels have old cables lying around is ridic dude

Just get a USB port instead of a dock connector, duh. Future proof for the foreseeable future.

Two of the last round of hotels I stayed in had glitched/broken docking thingies anyway.

Come to think of it, if I stayed in fewer hotels I could be buying an iPhone 5

otm, this is a wake-up call

hotels is like a ignorable fraction of the number of ipod cables and docks out there. everyone on this thread either has at least one of those cables in their own house or in one of their immediate family's houses. the things are entrenched. you're under-imagining 400 million

lol at people who use docks

― caek, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 10:20 (5 hours ago) Permalink

eh I find my little cheapo dock from costco pretty useful actually, e.g. I can listen to NPR or Spotfiy in the kitchen only without bothering the napping little one and the quick plug and play is very easy and convenient. Obviously I'm not looking for audiophile sound out of the thing.

I have a ton of them! Guess what, I've happily swapped them between iPods, iPhones, and iPads over a decade and it's been amazingly easy. I completely expect that I will eventually end up with devices with the new connector and get another decade of ease-of-swappability, with the added bonus of having a smaller connector on the end.

fwiw I griped a little when they switched from having a sweet firewire port on the top of the iPod, too

yeah you're right, eventually. so maybe in abt 10 years the new connector will be as common as the current one already is. that will be brilliant, not long to wait for us to be in the same place we are today once again.

and in the meantime it can be really exciting looking at it going hay it is 3mm narrower the future is so awesome

some words of wisdom for you stet

http://thumbpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/things-change.jpg

i am goin to stay in a hotel crying and charging ipods until they reveal the magical new cable-connecting properties of the wonder connector

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/09/05/leaked-iphone-5-shown-booting-up-to-developer-program-error-screen/

Just get a USB port instead of a dock connector, duh. Future proof for the foreseeable future.

― "Pffft" --buddha (silby), Wednesday, September 5, 2012 12:07 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hey this is a good idea, never seen that in a car, can they make the tunes flow through, i dont see why not

the tunes must flow

i'm surprised people don't bluetooth their tunes

Apparently they're planning to charge USBucks10 for an adaptor, or 3 of them for Apparently they're planning to charge USBucks10 for an adaptor, or 3 of them for $29, and at least initially only Apple will be making them.9, and at least initially only Apple will be making them.

Sorry, language settings on laptop must have been left on 'gertrude stein'

thing is the connector charges while flowing tunes where bluetooth flows and saps juice

lol I came here to post that as conspiracy angle

there you have it, stet, the feature of the new connector is profit

Apple will be the exclusive initial vendor of a new Dock Connector Adapter

jeremy horowitz looks like he's got big thoughts going on up there

Just get a USB port instead of a dock connector, duh. Future proof for the foreseeable future.

― "Pffft" --buddha (silby), Wednesday, September 5, 2012 12:07 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hey this is a good idea, never seen that in a car, can they make the tunes flow through, i dont see why not

― lag∞n, Wednesday, September 5, 2012 10:53 AM

The last two cars I rented had a built-in USB connector. Worked great and use whatever cable you want.

Sheesh, the panic about the new connector is such a non-issue for me.

did the tunes flow through

$100m is not to be sniffed at, i guess.

hackers could hack your car, be careful out there