Another day, another way Apple has angered members of the technology punditrocracy with the company's brazen something or other.

Ready thee thine fainting couch, because Salon's Andrew Leonard is here to tell the harrowing tale of (tip o' the antlers to )!

Oooh, what could it be?! Is it offensively wealthy white, male executives? Poor working conditions in the factories of its Chinese suppliers? The cockfighting ring Eddie Cue runs behind the dumpsters outside of Caffe Macs?

No! Something far more insidious.

A hotly contested presidential election hits the stretch run, a deadly foreign policy crisis breaks out in the Arab world, new census figures prove that the richest Americans are still gaining on everyone else... and yet one of the most alarming stories of the week (judging by my perhaps unbalanced Twitter feed) appears to be the news that Apple's iPhone 5 will come with a brand new dock connector.