General Motors to Provide iPod-friendly Interface

When portable CD players first emerged on the market, there was a time period where the only way to listen in your car was either via headphones (not the safest solution) or via a cassette tape adapter.  Then for a short period before every car started being manufactured with a built-in CD player, there was an interim period where several car manufacturers began including line-in jacks,
so you could simply run a cable from the headphone jack of your CD player into your car stereo.  Unfortunately,
most car manufacturers phased these inputs out after CD players became the default car audio unit.

General Motors has announced that they are going to begin including an audio jack (again), so that their cars will be iPod ready: "The new radios will include an auxiliary channel and front mounted auxiliary input jack, so that an iPod or other audio source can be easily plugged in and played through the vehicle audio system." Good, but it's not really anything new. It's something old that they never should have removed.

[via MacMerc]