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Originally Posted by Catlady
What I find annoying is the way other company's products are made to accommodate Apple's iStuff. Why did my home stereo from Sharp come with a special iPod dock to play and charge the device? I have SanDisk mp3 players, not Apple; I have to buy an extra cable to plug them in, which hangs messily from the unit, and the mp3 players don't charge through the stereo. It doesn't seem fair that I am forced to pay for a feature--the iPod dock--that I neither want nor use.
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There's a hundred million iPxxx' s out in the wild. Their owners appreciate a compatible dock. Adding a dock or connector for them would make *them* more likely to buy and the added sales pay for the feature on all the units.
I have no use for the iPod port on my home theater receiver (Creative Labs, here) but I'm pretty sure most of the Apple owners with the same model have no use for the 7-channel analog inputs that drew me to it so I figure it's a wash. They get something they need, I get something I need (which makes my BluRay surround audio much better), and the added sales volume makes the price a bit lower for everybody.