Apple has never won any points with me over their goofy, big old proprietary connectors that are wider than a clown smile.
With the advent of iPhone 5 and kindred products, Apple has elected to change it connector, which will be a great inconvenience to current users. At least they could have switched to a universal format such as USB micro so that there would not be to so many types of cables to worry about, especially on the road.
