There are several possible answers to this, but FlexTune?s answer is a pretty good one: unlike Logic3?s earlier, $60 i-Station Traveller, which used slide-out speakers with a headphone port plug, FlexTune uses slide-out speakers with two separate Dock Connector plugs, one vertical, one horizontal. When you want to use your iPod touch (or another iPod) in upright vertical mode, you plug it into the bottom Dock Connector; for video viewing,?