why is it that apple is so hell-bent on making ALL their products so unfriendly with garden variety mini-plugs?
i was just at a clients party this evening and could have saved the day because their ipod battery died and the party music was no more. i whipped out my trusty iphone, full of fun party music and sadly, their mini-plug wouldnt fit...
from my old quadra days and now even my iphone, they recess their mini-plug jacks such that typical garden-variety, off-the-shelf, radio shack (and others) cables dont fit. hell, even the vinyl on my apple branded earbud/microphone is getting peeled back after only about 4 months use! i remember back in the mid 1990's i had to take a utility knife and strip back the rubber on most mini-cables, even once had to take a hand grinder to a metal collar.
GRRRR!