Originally Posted by
Rowan
By the way, the ways things are pointing, if you want to add the next generation of peripherals to your current Apple product, or add your current peripherals to your next-generation Apple -- forget about it. Apple apparently is about to alter the design of the connection, and it won't fit any peripherals you've had before... although some bright company might manoeuvre their way through Apple's control-freak behaviour to produce an adapter.
Nice scoop! I have, literally, a
dozen friends who work at Apple (some of them even work in hardware engineering for mobile devices) and I haven't heard a word of
confirmed evidence on this topic! I knew those guys were holding out on me....
Or maybe you're just repeating the same rumors that crap journalists have been throwing around for the last 18 months?