One thing that is truly sickening about Apple is that they will not allow their dock to be used by other device manufacturers. Many appliances feature iPad or iPhone docks – for example things like clock radios or car stereos – where one can connect their iPhone and play music.
Obviously there should be an industry-standard dock. Just as sickening is that many manufacturers have just fallen in line and choose to put Apple docks on their appliances. Seems like they just want to make money and not really think about the long-term consequences of what they are doing, or whehter it is of ultimate benefit to consumers.
Anyhow, there now exists an option for using non-Apple MP3 players, phones, tablets, and other devices with appliances which have iPhone/iPod docks. The option consists of a Bluetooth communications receiver which plugs into the iPod/iPhone dock and allows any device to transmit audio to it.
Here are a few:
“auris is the simplest, most elegant and compact Bluetooth® based music receiver that’s been intuitively designed to enable you to wirelessly play, listen and control all your favorite music from your iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Android, Windows phone or any Bluetooth® enabled device through your music dock.”
8WARE MusicTooth Wireless Music Adapter for iPhone/iPod & Smartphone Docking Speaker
Bluewave Bluetooth Audio Receiver Use any iPhone speaker dock with your non-iPhone! Compatible with Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone
Also with iPad and iPod Touch!
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