Customer Reviews and Ratings

It was working fine and attached fine, but all of a sudden, it stopped charging my iPad and I did nothing to it, and didn't touch it.

19 of 20 people found this useful

1st one didn't work at all. Went to service centre and was replaced. 2nd one now speakers work but doesn't work with the iPod dock to VGA cable (works if I plug it into the iPad directly).

Complete rubbish - whole point was to stop having to plug in two cables to get external monitor and sound and instead just plug the iPad into the dock.

24 of 30 people found this useful

I gave one star because I couldn't give none. The connector fails its primary task - to connect. A proper connection is not made between ipad and the dock so the ipad doesn't charge consistently, and the AV functionality is intermittent. The ipad is held at a precarious angle, can be knocked easily and the base slides around easily on a table surface. Not what you expect from a Apple product really.

16 of 20 people found this useful

It does what it's supposed to, charges your ipad and even allows you to jack in external speakers.

it is solid built, and bigger than the older one.

Problem:

it does not come off easily. which is annoying. cus you have to hold your ipad with one hand, and use your other on the dock, and wiggle ur ipad free.

it doesn't fit if u have the smart cover on.

i was told that it is spongy - doesnt scratch the ipad where the ipad sits.. no.. it isn't

15 of 20 people found this useful

I love the design. In terms of look, it is slick, handsome, and beautiful. It terms of functionality, it serves it's purpose providing perfect steady support to hold my IPAD vertically for either charging or used as picture frame/clock/typing etc. I am not the designer of the dock, not sure if it was intentionally designed as such. But in my opinion, even it can be used with the cover on, I would probably still take the cover off while my IPAD is in the dock. 2 simple reasons: (1) IPAD looked beautiful and elegant enough to be displayed on my desk, living hall, bedroom etc, why would I want to cover it up with something else? 2) While charging, I would like to have as much cooling as possible to prevent over heating up the chip. Why would I want to put an insulation around to risk my IPAD over heated while charging?

I have been looking around for alternatives to the dock, honestly, I couldn't find anything better. Well done Apple designer!

25 of 39 people found this useful

While the stand is very convenient once you get the iPad installed, alignment is quite difficult. I have to pick up the base and fiddle with it almost every time I use it. I'm not sure if it's the fault of the iPad or the base, but it pretty disappointing.

22 of 27 people found this useful

I too, was unaware that the iPad would not fit on the dock, while in the case.....come on, apple, you can do better than that.. I love my iPad...considering getting an iPhone......but, the dock, I could have done without!

23 of 35 people found this useful

$29 is a fair price, but what does it do? Well, if you have a case for you iPad (don't we all, after all we do want to protect our investment, don't we?) the iPad will not fit on the dock with the case. Take it out of the case to dock it? Why bother, it really doesn't do much other than prop it up as a picture frame or charge it if you choose to do so... but again, out of the case.

The MAIN reason i bought it was to play iTunes through my home stereo system.. without even reading the specs, I bought the dock. What a major disappointment to get home and attach the line out cable and find out it doesn't work like the iTouch dock. I thought I would be able to use the small white Apple remote to advance songs, volume control, etc., but nope.

Do I want to get up and manually advance the song using the iPad itself when a lame tune gets into one of my Smart Playlists and I don't feel like listening to it? No way.. but that's the only control you have... your blasted finger on the iPad with your fat fanny out of the Lazy-boy.

I can only blame myself for not reading the specs.. but shoot, I thought Apple developed 'useful' products.

27 of 39 people found this useful

I've been waiting for this sort of thing for a long time. So what if you can't use a case? That's probably a good thing, since you don't want your iPad hardware burning up inside that extra layer of plastic while it's charging. It's always nice to have your iPad stand up while it's charging. Maybe in the future, you would be able to pull the 30-pin connector and an extend-able cable out of its groove so that you can view your iPad in both portrait and landscape.

For the people saying that its too wobbly, you might want to try using it on your desk and not your bed.

16 of 30 people found this useful