Thing of it is, the port fits physically. It snaps in place and all that. There’s some other innards that are so incompatible that, like…the phone’s brain knows enough about the incompatibility to alert the user. So, you gotta figure that the incompatibility was known ahead of time. Like..someone knew — okay, that old stuff? Ain’t gonna work with the new. And no one said, well…dunno if that’s such a good thing for people and their concerns about throwing out things designed to be obsolescent. That might not be good design. But, you know..*shrug*…they did it anyway.

I’m sure there’s an engineering-y rationale here. Perhaps the new guy needs more charging current than the old guy because they replaced the sealed rechargeable battery cell with some new one with a different chemistry or specifications or whatever. But, these are just rationales for decision criteria and that sort of thing.

I’m still dumbfounded about this design.

i’m wondering why APPLE would shift to a new charger port? let us assume, for a moment, that they shifted to a new charger port that was both more energy efficient and, for argument’s sake, of superior design (so that we can shrug and say “ok, well, at least it’s because of a better design and not just because they are lazy and needed more space for the microphone, or something like that…”), one would still be inclined to think that APPLE might have been savvy enough to have included some form of adapter.

who makes these kinds of decisions?