The beginning of the end of Apple’s dominance….

[spdrun]

Agreed, though mostly for drives containing music. And please give them enough ampacity to power a mechanical 2,5″ drive.

[briansd1]

You would not like BMWs, spdrun.

[spdrun]

I like 1980s and 1990s BMWs. Anything that came after was a bloat-pig on wheels. Isn’t the M3 something like 3500 lb now?

[Coronita]

[quote=spdrun]Why should automakers need to include ANY connector in their cars, other than 12V and AUX IN? Standard across phones, rather than designing for a brand poisoned by the legacy of a sick old man.

Also, kudos to all automakers who still include a DIN form-factor stereo — this allows for replacement of electronics as the car ages.[/quote]

Uh, because analog audio over a jack sucks in terms of audio quality?

[spdrun]

Most car systems take analog audio from the Crapple iDevices anyway.

The other option is digital audio over Bluetooth, no jack. This can be standardized, without requiring buyers to buy Crapple Crippleware.

[Coronita]

[quote=spdrun]Most car systems take analog audio from the Crapple iDevices anyway.

The other option is digital audio over Bluetooth, no jack. This can be standardized, without requiring buyers to buy Crapple Crippleware.[/quote]

If you mean a2dp, yes I agree. But the way usb works is it reads the media file directly which is far superior than through an aux plug.

[spdrun]

I said in a later post that I’m not anti-USB. Again: standardized connector, not CrApple proprietary stuff.

Though I have to say that the iPhone 5’s connector will probably be an improvement on the super-fragile connectors on the current phones.

[Coronita]

[quote=spdrun]I said in a later post that I’m not anti-USB. Again: standardized connector, not CrApple proprietary stuff.

Though I have to say that the iPhone 5’s connector will probably be an improvement on the super-fragile connectors on the current phones.[/quote]

We’re on the same page you know. But you should know that apple’s history is to make things proprietary and incompatible so that existing customers are locked in…That is, until they start losing market share.

[briansd1]

[quote=flu] But you should know that apple’s history is to make things proprietary and incompatible so that existing customers are locked in…That is, until they start losing market share.[/quote]

Makes perfect business sense… not so consumer friendly, but it makes perfect business sense.

You maximize the profits from the desirability of your products, then you switch plan when market share declines.

[Coronita]

[quote=briansd1][quote=flu] But you should know that apple’s history is to make things proprietary and incompatible so that existing customers are locked in…That is, until they start losing market share.[/quote]

Makes perfect business sense… not so consumer friendly, but it makes perfect business sense.

You maximize the profits from the desirability of your products, then you switch plan when market share declines.[/quote]

Except if you follow apple’s history… Like what they tried to do the first time around with macs (in which you couldn’t get standard PC peripherals to work on a mac since they made macs all scsi), you would see that it a was a strategy that backfired.

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