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You ready for a tech beat down?  I'll give you a chance to back off this line of thinking before I put the hammer down.... |
LOL... yeah OK. If you think so. Read the entire article in my last post, and tell me if your opinion changes.
The design of the 30 pin connecter is about efficiency.
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The original 30-Pin Dock Connector was a remarkably future-proof design, and Apple has added functionality to many of the blank pins over time; until now, there’s a pin for nearly every function an accessory could possibly want to provide. The benefits for accessory makers are huge, because they don’t have to make devices with power-hungry CPUs to try to figure out and translate all of the data coming in and out of an iDevice into a format it can actually use.
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Apple basically gave accessory makers a defined pinout board. Driver free.
If you're an accessory creator, the following makes it incredibly efficient to create devices and support that have direct access to only the data you care about, and zero overhead of data that is irrelevant to its function. In no way can you understate the importance of that. And the future version will be just as future-proof, because the concept is so solid.
