I think that we're at cross purposes. You speak as if the average consumer has any clue what Apple are telling other manufacturers. My field of expertise is finance and healthcare and frankly I don't care what version software, what processor or what language the thing runs just that it does what the vendor claims it does. Apple may have told other manufacturers not to "put their hands in the fire" but no-one told me they were changing the way iPhones were powered up - they were just happy to tell me that it was just like my old phone only better (see the UK ad campaign) which is actually untrue at worst and very misleading at best. It's just like the old phone but with some (quite significant) differences i.e. it won't charge in many accessories that you may have, it's slower in many applications and it may not connect via Bluetooth as the old one did . Would it have been impossible for them to have continued to support Firewire and USB? I'm afraid it's not my field of expertise so I can't answer that one.
PS I have no idea what you mean by GA...
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