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Originally Posted by scottjl
well that's the first i've heard of any apple employee pushing it as an e-book reader. at least as a dedicated unit. everything else mentions that among other things you can read books on it.
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You have a very strange definition of "pushing something as an ebook reader".If they advertise it that it reads ebooks and does other things, that's pushing it as an ebook reader. The apple guy I spoke to was probably pushing it as an ebook reader, since that's what I was interested in. No doubt he'd have pushed some other feature if I had been interested in the other features.
This is not like the situation with not calling a smartphone of whatever brand an "ereader". They are pushing e-book reading as something the iPad is
ideal for. They don't do that with the iPhone, even if you can read books on it.
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for as much as i'd like to see a USB port on it (for a connection to various devices) it's unlikely we ever will. why? ok. so apple adds in a USB port, which one? a? b? mini? micro? is it a host or a device? for the sake of simplicity say it's a host with a type a, which would allow you to plug in printers, cameras, webcams, scanners, game controllers, keyboards, microphones, headsets, mp3 players, cd/dvd drives, jump drives, etc.
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I'd be happy if it only supported USB jump drives. An SD card reader would be a suitable replacement. We might not ever see it; not because it would be so very hard to program, but only because Apple doesn't want you to be able to get stuff onto the iPad without going through their hoops.