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Is Apple Trying to Take Over iPod Accessories?
An anonymous reader writes "With more and more iPod accessories being released by Apple all the time many users are speculating that Apple is trying to shoulder the after-market iPod companies aside. However, at least one user doesn't see it that way, and thinks that Apple's move may actually help the after-market companies. From the article: 'Even if it wanted to, Apple knows that it couldn't simply make the iPod accessory market participants magically go away. If Apple did try to steal their lunch, all it would succeed in doing would be to drive those companies straight into the arms of the iPod's competitors, most of whom are desperate to see any kind of an accessory market form around their players. And that's the last thing Apple wants to have happen.'"
They dropped the firewire connector and screwed all of us early gen adopters so how long until they take away the standard connector and change it into something new? It will lock everyone out of all future upgrades and force everyone into getting a new iPod.
They have done it before so I am just waiting for them to do it again.
(I might be bitter but I still like my iPod more than any other mp3 player, even if I can't hook it up to my new pair of jeans)