Apple Says "No" To Releasing New Dock Connector Specs

sl4shd0rk writes "According to sources, Apple hasn't offered any specs to developers for the new '9-pin Connector' to be used on the next version of the iPhone. Apple has also said it may use 'licensing agreements and threats of lawsuits' to prevent third-party adapters from hitting the market through at least 2012. There have been suggestions that this tactic is to allow Apple time to leverage competition and reap in revenues of $100 million for every 10 million Dock Connector Adapters it sells for $10. It remains unclear whether Apple will allow third-party developers to release competing alternatives after 2012."

Comments

Re:universal connector

[SpooForBrains]

And it sucks.

You can't (for instance) use MHL at the same time as USB on the go (USB host mode). Or at the same time as USB AT ALL, as far as I know.

  At least, you couldn't, until they released a new INCOMPATIBLE spec for the connector (starting with, I think, the Galaxy S3).

Also, there's no standard interface for external controls, so you can't have a dock that supports skipping forward/backward/etc.

There's no line level analogue out (as previously mentioned), so that connector is not useable as a dock connector.

Apple make questionable choices about some things, but the dock connector is something they got emphatically right, in my opinion.

Re:Apple is the new Microsoft

[gsgriffin]

When you grow the 3rd party vendor addons to such a magnitude that they rely upon you telling them what they can expect next.it it's very common to let those around you that are helping your product sell know what to develop next. You obviously are a FanboI and at times must be able to see that Apple is not about products. They're about money and what it takes to make a lot more. Corporate greed hasn't escaped them.