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While Apple fanboys and girls anxiously await the latest iPhone, some businesses aren't so excited.
Unlike its predecessors, the iPhone 5 will come with the "Lightning," an eight-pin, all-digital connector. The Lightning is reversible, and reportedly more durable and 80% smaller than the original. But the updates are causing headaches for hotels and gyms outfitted to accommodate Apple's old 30-pin connector, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Michael Mueller, chief executive of Dallas-based hotel chain NYLO Hotels LLC, for example, told the newspaper that he bought clock radios that have iPhone docks -- at $115 each -- for all 600 of his hotel rooms.
Mueller must now decide whether to replace the radios, and whether he should order the new or old dock connectors for the more than 400 rooms he has under construction.
Apple is selling an adapter to connect the iPhone 5 to new connectors. At $29 each, it's a costly option for Mueller.
"It's going to be a problem," Mueller told the WSJ. "We're going to have to decide if we stock those or if people with iPhones just sort of over time end up throwing one in their briefcase and knowing when they'll need it."