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ebw on 23 June 2012
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superchunk said:
skeezer said:
superchunk said:

Yes they do. How else would they sale you an overpriced proprietary cord?

Additionally, iPhone5 is changing that proprietary cord to a new design so you all have to buy another one.

But one comes in the iphone 5 box, so unless you lose it, there's no reason to buy another. 

First I shrugged this off as I hadn't thought about that. But then I realized... what about all the other accessories people have bought and used with multiple iOS products over the years? That single plug style is one reason why iProducts had so many accessories in the first place.

Well, Apple just changed the power connector on their new MacBook line.  The previous power connector was compatible with the last 6 years of power supplies, and was proprietary with Apple as the sole supplier, unlike the iPod connectors.  To retain compatibility with these older supplies, you can buy a $10 adapter.  It's entirely plausible that they'll do something similar here.

There have been software reasons for old iPod accessories to become incompatible with newer iPhones/iPads.  It's not like those really affected a large number of customers, or hurt sales of the newer devices.