Ipad dock and Ipad cover don't work well together

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I was able to pick up a returned dock from best buy for $20 (instead of $29.99). Absolutely nothing wrong with it.

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I like that it's portable and can slip it into my bag and holds up the Ipad a lot better then the slip on cover from apple does.

But I had to remove the Ipad from the cover in order for dock to charge the Ipad.

So then I went and did what I do best.

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and I snipped away the edges around the port, so that the Ipad and the dock could make a closer contact and charge the Ipad without removing it from the cover.

For $40 a pop, I wish someone in R&D at Apple would have taken just one moment and tested to see if the Ipad with a cover on it, would work with the dock before they decided to send it to production.


It's the little things .....
 

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Need to do that to mine, but just haven't gotten around to it.
 
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This is unfortunate. I could understand if a third party case didn't work with the dock, but you would think Apple would do a better job at engineering its own products.
 
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This has always been a problem with the iPhones too. I think apple's rationale might be that if you have the case, you don't need the dock. But I don't know if you can plus the cord into the iPad and still have it stand up.

I am still eagerly awaiting my chance to get a case, but they seem much more scarce than the iPads themselves, which I can't understand for the life of me.
 
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I'm going to have to agree with the majority on this one, this is pretty stupid of apple to not think about this! There must to be a pretty good reason for them not to…maybe overheating while charging?
 

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