Let's get this straight. Being asked to buy a $29 adapter is an "enormous insult" to someone who already has an iPhone 4S but wants to buy an iPhone 5 and use it with his third-party radio dock? You don't see the obvious disconnect in that argument? "I am so privileged that I can buy a new phone every year but not so privileged that I can afford $29."

Well, that is a unique situation.

Perhaps even more disappointingly, who among us isn't affronted by the thought of an ugly adapter clashing with Apple's sublime design aesthetic?

So, we've gone from "People have no money!" to "People are really concerned about aesthetics!" Is it time to just shut the country down because of a cognitive dissonance overload?

Apple executives argue that the new iPhone required a different dock connector for design reasons--the old dock connector was too big for the slimmed down iPhone 5, and the new dock connector will (eventually) allow for speedier data flow. See? More progress!