Cable to hook iPhone up to head unit

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Now that my Pioneer AVH-3300BT is on the way, I'm jut looking at the cables I'll need. Looking at the cable Pioneer recommend to hook up an iPhone, it looks just like a normal iPhone cable (USB one end, Apple connection the other) but with a 3.5mm jack included.

Would a normal Apple cable work? Is the 3.5mm jack needed?
 
My car is the same, it needs a slightly different cable which is dock one end and USB and 3.5mm jack the other end. For some reason the USB is used for the data part (ie. tracknames, skips etc) and the audio itself is played through the 3.5mm jack. No idea why it's done like this but the cable cost about a fiver off ebay. With my car if I use a standard Apple cable, the head unit picks it up and appears to be playing etc but no audio is heard due to the car expecting it via the 3.5mm jack.
 
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