• Holmes108

    What?! I though we were already committed to micro usb. I didn’t realize it was only Europe.

    I also didn’t realize Europe “wimped out” with adapters either…. Disappointing.

  • Derek

    You know, strictly speaking, wouldn’t a standardized connector help out the manufacturers as well? With every phone they made, they could just skip the part where they design the new adapter and write in “micro USB” — Go! Really, except for the iPhone (which uses its dock connector to maintain compatibility with the myriad of existing iPod docks out there), I don’t see why any manufacturer would be against this. I also imagine if major cell service providers (like Sprint) would just step up and say that they simply won’t stock phones that use anything but Micro USB, the problem would be resolved. Heck, even the iPhone could add a micro usb port on the side for charging while still maintaining the dock port on the bottom to, well, dock.

  • Andrew

    I really wish Apple would implement it’s dock via USB. There really aren’t any super technical reason they couldn’t. If they want backward compatibility with old docks, that should be the adapter not the other way around.

    However.. If Apple decided to move away from it’s propriety dock to something a little more standard like Micro-USB that would mean all manufactures of devices that dock with an Iphone / ipod would switch to using a USB interface as well. Then all the android phones and competing music players would design their devices to also be USB and all of a sudden Apple loses that Monopoly on good music dock support. The day this happens is the day I buy an Apple product. (read between the lines. I will never buy an Apple product)

    Apple will never do this. Apple has no interest in giving the consumer choices, Apple only has interest in being the consumers choice, this monopolies in a small area make a difference.