In tech circles there has always quip that comes up every time someone talks about a "standard": which version are they talking about? Bluetooth is a classic example… a "standard" which was implemented differently by every manufacturer, so, for the first few years, Bluetooth devices often wouldn't connect to each other. For all its flaws, one advantage Apple should have is that since it designs its hardware, software and sometimes the standards, all its stuff should work together well. If you buy a paid of speakers with a 30-pin, official Apple-certified iPod dock connector, surely it should work with iPods that have 30 pin iPod sockets. Don't count on it. Increasingly, angry purchasers of the iPhone 3G are discovering that their accessories don't work with it — even ones that used to work fine with the recently released...
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