Made for iPod made for iPhone and made for iPad mean that an electronic accessory has been designed to connect specifically to iPod, iPhone or iPad respectively and has been certified by the developer to meet apple performance standard. The ROVPower lightning to USB cable can reach the perfect distance while still being compact enough to toss in a bag and go it plugs into any USB 2.0 port so you can use it virtually anywhere connect to your laptop to charge and sync use your own wall charger to charge from the wall or plug into a car charger and charge on the road. Depending on the type of case you have you may need to remove your case before charging if your speakers connector port and AUX port are fully exposed when your case is on you should be able to easily charge and sync your device without removing the case.