[Vale46Rossi]

Originally Posted by TypeRNammer

lol did anyone see the price for the 30 pin adapter? 45 bucks before tax

Eh, I bought 3.

It will come in handy for my car and stuff like that =P

Also :

Can someone explain why they didn't go with MicroUSB without the next ten replies being something about Apple trying to get millions of dollars?

Because this connector and the previous 30-pin ADC transfer a lot more than pictures and power.
Micro-USB is fine for things like moving data (using your phone as a thumb-drive) and delivering a steady charge.
Where Micro-USB fails is doing HD at full motion (720/1080p @ 24+ FPS)
Also USB is generally not considered efficient for streaming audio. It works, yes, but USB makes no real-time guarantees. Meaning if they had just micro-USB, my car stereo might stutter while playing a song.
Most Android tablets side-step this issue by having a separate type D (mini) HDMI port on the phone. Since HDMI doesn't do power or data transfer, this means you need two connectors. A design that Apple probably doesn't want to consider.
There are other solutions out there, for example MHL would milk the necessary bandwidth out of the Micro-USB form-factor; but for all I know there are licensing restrictions preventing Apple from using it [cheaply].
MHL: Mobile High-Definition Link - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia