In a money-printing racket, Apple is charging 30 bucks for the new ‘Lightning to 30-pin’ adapter and 40 bucks for a 0.2m cable version of the adapter. Anyone who has an old iPhone accessory is probably going to need one of these. And oh, it doesn’t ship until October.
https://gizmodo.com/this-is-the-ugly-iphone-5-lightning-adapter-youll-need-5942656
For what it’s worth, the MagSafe 2 adapter was a fairly reasonable 10 bucks. Given that price it wasn’t out of line to assume that the iPhone converter would be around the same price too. But nope! It’s 3x-4x the price. That’s a robbery. That means if you want to use your old iPod speakers or iPhone cables or car kits or any of your iPod accessories, you’ll have to spring $30 for each one. That’s going to be a good chunk of change for some people.
https://gizmodo.com/apple-magsafe-to-magsafe-2-converter-review-couldnt-we-5928370
And why does the adapter ship in the vague-ish frame of October? Is that October 1st or right before Halloween? It’s a piece of plastic! If Apple is forcing us to wait that long after the iPhone 5 comes out, we might as well wait until Monoprice can slash off 4/5th of the price for an adapter that does the same goddamn thing. Don’t support the racket, wait until it gets cheap somewhere else. [Apple]
