The point of the 30 pin adapter is to make it easy as sin to make 3rd party components. The rewiring to go from the old 30pin to the new lightning doesn't appe

The point of the 30 pin adapter is to make it easy as sin to make 3rd party components. The rewiring to go from the old 30pin to the new lightning doesn't appear to be very large. To go from analog/multichannel digital to USB is a relatively large change.