Originally Posted by harryE123
Your thought processes are just fine, in no way did I mean to be rude. I was talking about Palaeolithic conceptions in people who use the tec. If someone can't email a large file or upload it on their personal cloud but have to give you usbs of course it's not your fault, but neither is the ipads, apple's or ipad user's fault that they have started moving along with the times. More people would even give you a cd instead of usb flash drive, much more, so what? Do tablets have to cater for cd drives too? This is preposterous.
Essentially what I am saying is that apple has always being the first ones to ditch old tech and jump on new, and better ones, they did this by ditching the floppies, they did this by implementing firewire first, they did this by implementing usb first (courtesy of intel of course). Now they very appropriately did away with the usb slot on slim tablets, it doesn't even fit properly. But to complain that this is unthinkable when there are so many workarounds.... Even if you can't get people to email you files, you can still (easily) jailbreak the ipad and have a usb slot with the miniscule camera kit you pop in, or you could use any of the wifi+usb+sd card readers on the side and transfer everything to the ipad that way.
(btw, put an itunes library on a nas and access it from everywhere, what's the big deal - and now with airplay stream any content from within an idevice via apple tv to any stereo/tv system.)
All I am saying is that just because a device is bolder in taking steps forward with tec doesn't make it a bad choice, all the more so when there are so many options open for you like the ones I described.
If the extra few gb on an sd card slot are also that important to you, fine by me, but the ipad is offered with ample storage, so I can understand an sd card slot for a 4gb flash slate but for a 32gb or a 64gd I can't see what that would give you. Sure, I d want and sd card slot for a few more gb's, but gbs are not enough, they are never enough, an sd card slot wouldn't save you. But integration with a qood cloud server would, or your nas server, and that is easy, open and free with the ipad. So it's your choice, complain about the lack of a few extra gbs in an sd card slot or go along with the times and get a few tens of gbs, or even hundreds via a home or cloud server?
@Crowl
Very good points but I did mention slates/tablets delivering a blow to large screen eink readers. I think it's a combination of both factors. Amazon are certainly subsidising their products with book sales, esp. the large screen dx. And unsurprisingly not even sony can compete in that price, they've priced a much, much smaller screen device the daily edition at about the same money as the dx, that shows they can't compete in price.
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