So, it's out with the old 30-pin dock, but there's still optical, AUX, video out, RCA and 3.5mm jack connections if you prefer to keep things physically connected.

ENGADGET

Even if Google never ends up in the dock, Microsoft and its allies may still nudge it to change the way it does business, to their advantage.

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Completionists will need to wait until Q3 to pick up the keyboard dock though, as its form and price still aren't finalized.

ENGADGET

Still, the idea of the dock can live on with additions like Qi inductive charging, as we've seen from the likes of JBL and TDK already.

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Most likely, you can still remember the day you replaced them with an iPod dock or wireless speaker.

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"They're still on the ship because they don't know where to dock the boat, " said agent Bailey Chung.

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By the mid-1920s, the Cutty Sark was the only one still afloat and in 1954 it was transferred to its current dry-dock site in Greenwich.

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He said investigators are still working on lighting the room because the ship is operating on temporary power from a generator on the dock.

CNN: From Susan Candiotti and Ross Levitt,