Sentences with phrase «ipad dock connector»

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For ten years the iPod, iPhones, and iPads used Apple's 30 pin wide dock connector.

For almost as long as Apple has been making mobile devices — whether it's iPods, iPhones, or iPads — the company has clung to its own charging ports, dating back to the introduction of the 30 - pin dock connector in 2003 with the third - generation iPod.

The engineering mockup shows two speakers on either side of the dock connector, where current iPads have only one speaker.

We've heard that Apple is getting ready to ditch the dock connector as it's currently sized and implemented on iPods, iPhones, and iPads.

As we've seen, there are two main reasons why Apple has kept the 30 - Pin Dock Connector standard for so long: it makes it much easier for accessories to communicate directly with iPhones, iPods and iPads, and Apple has a lucrative side business selling «Made for iPod, iPhone or iPad» certifications to accessory makers.

That makes the Dock Connector a big bottleneck when it comes to slimming down future iPhones and iPads and giving them better battery life.

Thanks to the Apple Dock Connector, we have cars that can speak with our iPhones or iPads, televisions that can suck movies from our iPods and display them 50 - inches high, and an endless and affordable array of iPod - compatible toys, peripherals, accessories and speaker docks.