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Originally Posted by frabjous
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.
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The even bigger reason is it would cut into sales of higher memory capacity models, where they really make a lot of money by overcharging for memory.
Apple gets $100 more for a 32GB iPad than a 16, and then $100 more (despite being twice the memory increase) for the 64GB over the 32.
Add an SD card slot especially, or USB, then you'll see more people sticking with the 16GB model and just keeping their videos, music etc. on SD cards etc.