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JP Sullivan

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To: engineer who wrote (192158)	7/24/2016 8:10:02 PM
From: Heywood40	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) of 213182

Your "2012 Mercedes would have to be sold" hyperbole is not convincing. The 3.5 mm connector has been in use for over 50 years. It's a legacy kludge that has finally been engineered out of relevance and has earned itself a special place in the Technology Hall of Fame. I'm happy to see Apple putting it there, on the same shelf as SCSI, floppies, VGA, S-Video, Serial, Parallel... It's OK with me if Mercedes engineers want to continue including it as legacy input, but it's not OK if they think a legacy input is an acceptable substitute for the current widely used and accepted standard input methods. If Mercedes-Benz in 2012 didn't already include both USB and Bluetooth as standard connectivity in their audio systems, four years after I already had both in my truck, then the crap on their customer's heads is easily traced back as being from Mercedes-Benz engineers.

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