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Originally Posted by Technocrat Agreed, it makes a lot of business sense, but I still don't get fleecing part. As this doesn't change for existing makers, almost all the old docks would work with the adapter except a few which are designed for specific dimensions of an iDevice in which case the dock wouldn't have worked anyways.
The basic cable comes with all iOS devices, the adapter would have to be bought, pretty standard practice I would say. |
For existing devices it is just pushing down as 30$ adapter but that is not what probably Anuj called fleecing.
See it works like this a good quality micro USB cable can be at the most 2$ in open market so a consumer is unlikey to spend 38$ on a OEM cable ( there are still some people who buy overpriced OEM micro USB cable

but let's keep them aside ).
Micro USB / USB spec is open so any vendor making speakers , Gym equipments , Car Audio etc can use the same connector and he need not pay royalty so these devices are cheaper whereas iPOD specific docks , Treadmills , lightning mood enhancers , head /back massagers etc need to pay connector royalty on every device being manufactured.
By 2012 majority of iPhone buyers have already collected the acessories they want so it is time to push them to another spending cycle.
For couple of years you will have this 30$ converter available in shops but slowly it will strart fading away and others wont be able to make it legally.
Over a period new acessories will just have lightning conncetor forcing existing users to change iPhone to newer ones rather then buy expensive adapters.
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Originally Posted by Technocrat Exactly, why blame just Apple then as some folks are doing?
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They were fleecing but stopped after EU nudge in 2011 ( Mandated from 2nd Feb 2012) Apple saw the nudge and continued fleecing with a small workaround to fit in compliance.
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Originally Posted by Orko I seriously doubt that the EU is as concerned about this as you are. |
EU is seriously concerened and that is why they came up with this idea the proposal was to save environment , This has exctly forced Nokia , Samung and Motorola to abondon propriety connectors and forgo around 50 to 100 $ revanue per handset in aftermarket bundles.
Yes there are workarounds untill they are plugged by tighter compliance norms and this is historically how it works first a spec comes then it becomes mandatory after an year and then it gets added to GCF Type certification. Thereafter they strat removing workaround and loopholes.
In fact ECC has very good track record in development of mobile telecom industry as I have seen over last 15 years. Remember EU forced Erricson, Nokia and others to come together and agree on GSM in late 80s and they came up with very strict GCF type compliance for handset manufacturers. Also it was EU which forced SIM card on handset vendors as they did not want locked phones.
It is another story that manufacturers came up with locking mechanisms defeating original intent.
US was a late bloomer in Mobile world as for whole of 90s the networks were fragmented in AMPS , DAMPS , CDMA etc they came up with PTCRB type certification as late as 1997 , Till today you have a problem that handsets on one major network don't work on another.
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Originally Posted by Orko Meanwhile this is interesting:
iPhone 5 benchmarks have appeared in Geekbench.
It reveals a dual-core, 1GHz CPU with 1GB RAM.
The really interesting bit is this: it handily beats the quad-core, 2GB RAM Samsung S3. In fact, it beats every Android phone and tablet out there. Goes to show that good design and engineering can trump technical specs every time. |
Sigh .. A core is not just a Core the Quad Core processors are Cortax-A9 where as the A6 is Cortax-A15 , So most of the performance gain is due to newer generation ARM core.
I suspect that Apple has fittered away the core advantage as of now in iOS6 by not using any advanced possibility like Automatic Scaling of Graphics ( Why letterbox mode ?? ) , No Virtualization Caging for secure transections ( Why to use A15 if you dont want to use the instruction set)