You're right. It really was the dock connector that made it a viable product for many people. The fact that the first iPods were Firewire (which I totally had f

You're right. It really was the dock connector that made it a viable product for many people. The fact that the first iPods were Firewire (which I totally had forgotten about and I even had a 1G iPod) made it very difficult to make it work outside of the Apple ecosystem.