pippin wrote: 
> They don't and can't. This is what's probably happening:
> What happens is that the dock doesn't support volume control through the
> standard interface, that's why it doesn't work in iPeng (iPeng should
> grey that thing out, will have to check why it doesn't) and why Apple's
> App hides the slider.
> 
> Then they have their own App which will communicate with the dock
> through some proprietary Sony-specific communication protocol. As a
> kludge they also let you browse the library to play music.
> 
> It's just a bad design by Sony, hate to say it, they should follow the
> standards.
> That said... I have no idea how complicated that is. There must be a
> reason why it took more than a year after the introduction of the
> Lightning connector before the first docks fully supporting it appeared
> on the market.

"iPeng should grey that thing out" - that should be fun, to gray out
both iPeng sliders, the one in the dock and the remote one.

Thanks for explaining what's going on.

As usual, I have another question: Can a device running iPeng Classic
control another device running iPeng 7, or vice versa?


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