After a little bit of research, you will find that the feature called "iPod out" is a specific feature added in iOS 4 which renders a UI on-device and outputs that via analog video signal to the accessory to display content and other information on an external display. Thus, this feature requires a dock connection…

Don't worry, soon enough our hands will become bigger to accommodate this.

U mad, bro?

My head unit does all that same stuff through a USB connection. iPod out functionality does not require a 30-pin connector.

Exactly. Unless they have removed support for these functions from the device itself, you can just use the new cable for any car with a USB port.

Why would you do that? The cord that comes with the phone is USB.

I kind of wish that Apple would sell those cases they used to camouflage the iphone 4 when it was first testing. You know, like the one that that guy left in that bar that time...

Right, so when's my Galaxy Tab 10.1 getting updated to Jelly Bean? Oh, right, never.

So the 4S isn't getting 6.0?

One would hope that in the case of the iphone they took pains to make the port more durable, since they were changing it anyway. It does look like it might be pretty durable.

Last year, if i recall correctly, it was about mid-November when the unlocked phone went on sale.

Well that's stupid. It's not really an adapter if it doesn't, you know, adapt.

One inch bigger, to be precise.

Thanks for this. What a speech. What an achievement. I can't even imagine what it was like to be in the shoes of a NASA engineer in the early 60's though. You want us to do WHAT?

Curiosity should be enough. Why does everything have to have a direct tangible benefit?

Alternatively...

Props for holding out this long!

Yeah but the 3G also doesn't get iOS 6 so there's still the built-in app.

Not interesting to some, sure. But it is interesting to a lot of others. We should all take interest and strive to learn about something, anything, throughout our lives. We're not here to consume, we're here to contribute. The fact that we as a race took the time and resources to follow through and make this discovery…

Here's the page where you can download the update without needing an account: