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Originally Posted by murraypaul
A USB port would not enable any of these.
Get a camera connection kit and plug it in, hey presto you have a USB port.
Without drivers to support the devices you want to connect to it, it doesn't do anything.
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The following message is in fact being typed out on a USB keyboard attached to my iPad via the camera connection kit. This is possible because most keyboards are plug-and-play... meaning their basic functionality is standardized, needing only basic drivers built into the system to work. The same is true of many USB devices. Like certain types of external media, including cameras/card readers (which is how the kit can work in the first place), jump drives, and hard disks. Unfortunately printers are not plug-and-play. Still, the iPad would have no trouble supporting a great number of USB peripherals if Apple so desired it to.
PS I've heard that the iPad (via the connection kit) also supports USB headsets and microphones, though I don't have any way to test this personally.