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Originally Posted by harryE123
other than shear prejudice I wonder why no one would want to be part of the premier ecosystem of apps, media, and syncing in itunes...
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iTunes doesn't come in a Linux variant. Nor is iTunes the premier ecosystem in my eyes when they use Apple specific formats.
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Originally Posted by harryE123
What would you need to do with usb on the ipad? Connect a wired keyboard? What peripheral that is so crucial cant's connect via bluetooth or wifi. Some Palaeolithic conceptions of tec are really stupefying?
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Oh, I don't know, maybe upload some photos that your family member wants to give you? Transfer some non AAC (like, say, FLAC) music files? Upload pdf technical manuals you need to read for work, and which come from work and not iTunes? As much as Apple wants to be the center of the universe, there are just too many needs for media
outside of iTunes. And please, it's been pointed out already, use the more standard "tech".
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Originally Posted by harryE123
but neither is the ipads, apple's or ipad user's fault that they have started moving along with the times.
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Yes it is! USB is the primary method of transport of digital stuff these days. It's all well and good to say we won't need USB in the future, but the future is not today. Where's my flying car to get me over the congested highways? What would have happened if they had stopped funding highways in the '70s because jetpacks were just around the corner?
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Originally Posted by harryE123
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).
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Please quote your source that Apple was the first to offer a USB slot. The closest I could come is that they were the first to offer USB
only, while PCs still offered legacy slots next to USBs. As far as abandoning floppies first, I don't see that as a good thing. Up until the past few years you could not flash the BIOS on your motherboard from anything other than a floppy. Firewire, I don't care about since relatively few peripherals use it, and not to any speed advantage over USB. My experience has been that read/write actions are the limiting factor, not transfer speed.
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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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Micro USB is 3 mm tall (
reference). The iPad is 13.4 mm thick, according to Wikipedia. I don't see a size issue, and considering that everybody else and their mother puts a USB slot on their device, I can't see cost being an issue either. They're simply commodity parts now. To not include something that won't mess with aesthetics, for pennies in hardware costs, that many people would find useful, seems asinine to me.
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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.)
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.
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When it locks you into only one way of doing things, the Apple way, then it's not bolder. What if I don't have any other iDevice? I then look around at all the perfectly working older equipment I have that uses standard interfaces that I would have to replace with iDevices. It gets rather expensive when you do that.