[harryE123]

//edit: oops, I just realised this is primarily an e-ink tech screen, apologies for the long digression here.

I was about to say I rest my case when I read the floppy argument, but Kolenka covered this far better than I could have.

I won't respond to the op point by point because it's evident the divide is very large in our disagreement here. As a token response for usb I will say again that you can still use your camera connection kit to transfer photos via usb, and on a jailbroken ipad you can even use it they way you want for general file transfer, so what's the big deal?

(and yes I did mean apple implemented usb only first) I will also ask the op if usb is so important to the devices, they might want to explain how in a market that has been stale for 10 years (tablets) -ever since in the early 00s gates predicted that in a couple of years everyone would be using tablets- Apple managed to sell more than 3 millions devices in three months. Surely, usb can't be that important.

Also, AAC is also not apple specific, it's an open standard and apple use it because very noticeably better than mp3. Yet they allow you to rip to mp3, and unlike MS they haven't drmed wmv, but where those that managed to actually take the consumer out of drm hell by convincing the music industry. So you can't play flac because there's apple lossless for itunes, it's not a big a deal to convert from flac takes second for one cd. And no apple doesn't support linux, why should they support .05% of the population, but there are a few open source alternatives for idevice syncing.