Never doubted there would be one. Also never doubted that it will not be in the box nor that it wont be sold for more than 1000 percent of what it cost to make.
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Apple to Provide Adapter for Smaller iPhone Dock Connector
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No it isn't. At least not in the US Apple store. $9.99 is what I paid, and $9.99 is what they show online.
I never talked about the price, I'm saying the point of this front page news is to inform those people this adapter will actually exist (if the rumor is true). There could have been a technical limitation that prevents it.
But what about the potential moving of the headphone jack? I like it on top. Not sure I'd like on the bottom.
... That's what she said.
... That's what she said.
It may cost them 1 dollar for the parts, they have to pay for delivery of the components to create the adapter, pay the workers if put together by hand, if not put together by hand the guys who have to create the machines to make the adapters, than the cost of creating the packaging including the materials for that and the marketing team to create the look of the packaging the plastic inside, the cost of delivering it to the store.
I am sure apple will make money the margin in the item is probably going to be 14 bucks or so per item sold if sold at 30 dollars realistically. I am not defending or condemning just pointing out that Apple is a company for profit and I would bet you everything I own that other companies would do the same practices that apple do if they could.
Yes, because that is clearly what they have charged in the past.
Oh wait, no its not.
Magsafe adapter is only $9. This adapter definitely won't be $30.
Where can we set up a petition against the smaller adapter? It's a stupid decision. I think car and plane companies etc. will think again when Apple comes with a 'new standard'. Apple now has that advantage over the others and when they decide to introduce a new connector that advantage is gone.
Wouldn't be much use. The iPhone and iPod are too light for a MagSafe to be effective. It works with the MacBooks because they are heavy enough that they'll stay put if you trip over the cord.
aren't a lot of these situations going to be the same for these companies? It's still USB on the other end, right?
Don't freakout people!
The adapter should make the hardware compatible with virtually all older 30-pin accessories.
Everyone that thinks all 30-pin accessories will be obsolete are incorrect. The pins they are dropping are 99.9% not used. ...I.E.: 8 of the 11 pins being dropped are for firewire connection...does anyone use an iDevice with a firewire cable???
Personally, I welcome the smaller connector, makes room for more useful stuff inside iPhones
It's also rumored to be compatible with USB micro connectors, as this is a (or going to be a) requirement for all cell phones in the UK. ...and possibly all iDevices will be updated with this connector by the end of the year (IMO), I could see apple dropping the iPod Classic, changing the iPod Nano (a bit larger as last rumored) and dropping the name "Nano" just calling it iPod...iPod shuffle, iPod, iPod Touch, that's it. There's also rumors of a smaller iPad later this year, along with a refreshed iPad that doesn't get as hot, these will also have the new connector. 
Check this:
http://www.cultofmac.com/178093/the-future-of-apples-dock-connector-feature/
The adapter should make the hardware compatible with virtually all older 30-pin accessories.
Everyone that thinks all 30-pin accessories will be obsolete are incorrect. The pins they are dropping are 99.9% not used. ...I.E.: 8 of the 11 pins being dropped are for firewire connection...does anyone use an iDevice with a firewire cable???
Personally, I welcome the smaller connector, makes room for more useful stuff inside iPhones
It's also rumored to be compatible with USB micro connectors, as this is a (or going to be a) requirement for all cell phones in the UK. ...and possibly all iDevices will be updated with this connector by the end of the year (IMO), I could see apple dropping the iPod Classic, changing the iPod Nano (a bit larger as last rumored) and dropping the name "Nano" just calling it iPod...iPod shuffle, iPod, iPod Touch, that's it. There's also rumors of a smaller iPad later this year, along with a refreshed iPad that doesn't get as hot, these will also have the new connector. Check this:
http://www.cultofmac.com/178093/the-future-of-apples-dock-connector-feature/
It's all very well making an adapter for mains charging, but the design of some high-end docks allow for very little tolerance in terms of the 'fit' and actual dimensions allowed for. At best, there'll be an awkward or raised fit, at worst, an adapter will be unusable for some and make the transition particularly painful.
Got it the wrong way around. You would need to fit the old style into the new style
Of course they'll have an adapter. It would be horrific if almost no accessories worked with the new iPhone at launch.
Thank god apple is gonna offer an adapter. i bet they will sell it separately, at just $29.99.
Sometimes, i hate apple so much!
Actually, it's going to be $49.99, plus your first born child.
If you're going to imagine something and then hate Apple for your own imagined transgression, you should go bigger.
Though really, you're just hating yourself, since it is all in your head.
I don't think it uses that much space on the inside of the phone, where the cables will come together.The adapter should make the hardware compatible with virtually all older 30-pin accessories.
Everyone that thinks all 30-pin accessories will be obsolete are incorrect. The pins they are dropping are 99.9% not used. ...I.E.: 8 of the 11 pins being dropped are for firewire connection...does anyone use an iDevice with a firewire cable???
Personally, I welcome the smaller connector, makes room for more useful stuff inside iPhones
Check this:
http://www.cultofmac.com/178093/the-future-of-apples-dock-connector-feature/
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I don't think it uses that much space on the inside of the phone, where the cables will come together.The adapter should make the hardware compatible with virtually all older 30-pin accessories.
Everyone that thinks all 30-pin accessories will be obsolete are incorrect. The pins they are dropping are 99.9% not used. ...I.E.: 8 of the 11 pins being dropped are for firewire connection...does anyone use an iDevice with a firewire cable???
Personally, I welcome the smaller connector, makes room for more useful stuff inside iPhones
Check this:
http://www.cultofmac.com/178093/the-future-of-apples-dock-connector-feature/
Using an adapter will look ugly on some docks. Imagine the $999 dock by Bang and Olufsen with an adapter sitting on it...
But for many it will be easy and relatively painless, perhaps even pleasurable.
It's not a smaller adapter, it's a smaller connector and an ADAPTER is the usual solution to hardware compatibility issues. I remember one that was gigantic back in the day of early Macs. Something to do with a serial port adapter. It was the size of a spice grinder.
Petitions against Apple revising its hardware or software? Shovelling sand against the tide. Money, changing hands or staying in your pocket, that's what is the petition of the marketplace.
Bang and Olufsen will probably find a way to make it look good. They don't want their thousand dollar product to look ugly.
Incidentally, whoever posted that "pins" article on Cult of Mac, thanks, found it interesting.
Particularly the mockup they "borrowed" (albeit citing the Italian source) which does reassure me about tolerances slightly given the use of the USB headphone jack...
Particularly the mockup they "borrowed" (albeit citing the Italian source) which does reassure me about tolerances slightly given the use of the USB headphone jack...