[thirdsun]

> literally unusable for their purposes.

Unless you get the $9 adapter discussed here. I get your point, I use iOS devices as musical instruments, but it's a niche and as such a fair trade-off most consumers don't care about.

I'd rate the healthy app ecosystem for music creation on iOS much higher and more valuable than the somewhat annoying necessity to use adapters for niche applications.

[mrbrowning]

Right, I didn't mean to say that they've made it totally impossible, but that the form factor they're trying to push as the "next thing," wireless audio, is not actually a replacement for that use case ("successor product" refers to wireless headphones, not newer iPhone generations).

But, yeah, I agree that the ecosystem makes it worth it -- it's not like there are any other viable alternatives, anyway.