So essentially take every cable, accessory, and part you have that attaches to the iPhone via the dock connector and throw it out.  Why?  Space savings. 

Now normally I could agree with that.  But phones have reached their size destination. Hell, they have been getting bigger, not smaller. The phones we have today are pretty much around the limit of what you can use as a human.  There is a point where our fingers are just too big.

So really all Apple is doing is ensuring that there is yet another proprietary standard out there for connecting up a phone and that people will have to buy a whole shitload of new cables and other accessories.  If this was any company other than fucking APPLE people would be having a conniption.  Why the FUCK can't they just put a micro-USB port on the god-damn thing to begin with or even better, LEAVE THE FUCKING DOCK CONNECTOR ALONE.

I use a Mac for work.  I have an iPhone.  I am SERIOUSLY considering ditching the Apple products for my personal use.  I'm getting tired of new Apple-only connectors, Apple telling me what I can and cannot do, and Apple charging out the ass for the privilege.  Apple was supposed to be the good guys, but they look more and more like what would have happened in the 90s of Microsoft made hardware too.  Blatant lock-in and telling customers what's good for them.

Fuck you and your walled garden Apple. You are letting your greed and arrogance kill the golden goose.