09-14-2012, 02:47 AM
The dock connector was originally in response to the Firewire jacks breaking in the first 2 generations of iPod. Apple is not going to just 'forget' about that and stupidly go back to the same flaw- it -has- to be sturdier than you're thinking, in addition to being in use on much lighter devices (6.5 oz orig FW iPod, 5.6 oz 3rd gen with first dock connector vs 3.5 oz for current Touch, 3.95 oz iPhone 5.)