Anyone feels cheated about MDI + ipod cable?

[Corey_R]

Yeah - it has worked fine at various times. But you're correct, Apple has moved the "goal posts" "a few" times. Several times when they have performed an update to iTunes, or to the iPhone/iPone, it updates the device firmware, and everything breaks, or you can new bugs come in, like the random skipping of the first second of songs etc.
Third-party device manufacturers then need to try and update their firmware/software to adjust to the new Apple updates. Volkswagen do release updated RCD/RNS firmware, and updated MDI firmware, but they don't particularly have a good method of distributing that.

One of their German sites does have a "software updates" page, but it's all in German.
Maverick's My-GTI site often posts the updates and instructions in English.

But being that I just use a USB key for my MDI storage, I've never needed to do these updates...

[dasrattles]

salesman noticed i use an iphone and commented that the MDI will "let me play my music from my iphone". i'm gonna go talk to them and see what can happen.

thing is, my friend has a 2011 suzuki swift and she plugs her ipod straight into the usb jack and it all works so i just kinda assumed it would work for the golf as well.

i'm just saying that VW should let their customers know that a separate cable is needed. it shouldn't be on the customer's part to assume that a separate cable is needed just because they use an apple product.

[Ryan_R]

Hehe - gotta love Corey's posts there. While I also dislike Apple for similar reasons I've pretty much gave up arguing about it a long time ago due to the massive number of Apple fans/users on Internet forums.

In this instance, I wouildn't necessarily be blaming them since VW charge the same amount for each type of cable. If I had bought the car from teh dealer with MDI, I would've done my best to persuade them to throw in at least one type of cable (otherwise the option is rendered useless). Keep in mind that you can also get the cables shipped to you for $30 from eBay.