[LINK] iPhones

[Paul Brooks]

On 22/06/2012 11:45 PM, stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:
>
> TechCrunch's prediction that the news will send shockwaves is spot on.
>
> Tech blogger Robert Scoble said the change would give Apple a tighter 
> control on iPhone accessories.
>
> "It will be nearly impossible to make unlicensed devices," he wrote on 
> his blog. "Unfortunately these design goals mean making obsolete the 
> something like 10 power chargers in my home. Sigh."

Do these people seriously think that nobody will make a $2.95 adapter to convert old
to new?
or yet another plugin to those charge-18-different-phones kits that get given way at
conferences?
OK, the new phone may not nestle as neatly in the cradle in the sub-woofer clock-radio
unit but - get a grip!

Meanwhile, the rest-of-phone-world standardised on micro-USB so all phone chargers are
multi-brand and model, which is the same form-factor I happily found out for a thing
called a MHL cable, which plugs my phone's micro-USB/MHL port into HDMI and external
USB appliances like harddisks and thumb drives, and possibly printers.

If Apple wants to make a switch, surely they should switch to the industry open
standard connector...but gleaming white pigs fly about as well as pink ones .

P.