Among other things, the port was/is/will be a: - Firewire Port - USB Slave Port - USB Host Port - Audio Line Out - Audio Line In - VGA Video Out - Micro

Among other things, the port was/is/will be a: - Firewire Port - USB Slave Port - USB Host Port - Audio Line Out - Audio Line In - VGA Video Out - Micro SD Port - Future Port 1 - Future Port 2 - etc... I suppose I might care about the complaints if I were not already swimming in iPod-USB cables. On the other hand, I have a micro-USB phone and exactly one micro-USB cable that I use for charging both at home and in my car, and for sync. One time I misplaced my one micro-USB cable and decided to go shopping for an extra, only to find that every store I visited had no idea what a micro-USB cable was. And my micro-USB phone is a lot more finicky about flaky USB power sources than any of my iDevices, so I have a very difficult time understanding the complaints about the iPod port.