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Originally Posted by harryE123
More people would even give you a cd instead of usb flash drive, much more, so what?
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No, I'm given a CD very rarely. I'm handed a USB key much more often. People find it a lot more convenient to copy the files to a USB key than to find a blank CD, burn the files onto it, then hand me that.
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Originally Posted by harryE123
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.
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But why should I have to have the bother of those workarounds? Doesn't it seem reasonable that I'd want a device that can simply handle the USB method? Sure, in the future I may not need the USB port. Great. But for now I want a device that fits with the way my world works now. For exactly the same reason, I want my tablet to run Flash, so that when I visit the websites that I already use regularly (the BBC, my subscription Tennis TV site, and plenty more) I can access the content.
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Originally Posted by harryE123
(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.)
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I wasn't suggesting that the Apple ecosystem couldn't do that, I was stating that my existing solution could also do that.
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Originally Posted by harryE123
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.
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That's not the reason I want the SD Card slot, although surely being able to extend the storage capacity of the tablet is a benefit?
I need the SD Card slot so that when I'm out and about with my tablet and someone takes the SD Card out of their camera and hands it to me I can immediately load those pictures onto my tablet.
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Originally Posted by harryE123
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?
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Again, you're accusing me of being behind the times rather than accepting that I may have legitimate reasons for wanting these extra ports in my tablet that co-exist with my being an IT industry professional who already has a NAS device with a media server, who uses VNC connections to computers on my network, VPN connections to remote networks, and who already synchronises several GBs of cloud data through DropBox.
Graham