> They pointed to new products making specialized chargers obsolete (looking at you, 30-pin connector)… And with that, I lost interest in this article. For th

> They pointed to new products making specialized chargers obsolete (looking at you, 30-pin connector)… And with that, I lost interest in this article. For those interested, check out https://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/30-pin_Connector https://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/30-pin_Connector: The 30-pin connector allowed both USB _and_ FireWire (which existed back then) charging & data, line-level audio output (better for sending into a stereo), and (for some models) video output. It also provided a serial interface for iPod querying and control. It allowed a car, for example, to query what was on the iPod, control it, and get audio back over line-level. Calling out the 30-pin connector in this way is, in my opinion, a disservice to what needed to be supported at the time the 30-pin connector was introduced.