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Originally Posted by Solicitous
- No USB ports. Come on Apple, this is a common interface connector found in all devices, even my mobile phone has one. Can't plug in the camera, have to buy an Apple adapter.
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Can I ask what you want USB for? People keep saying this but what do they use USB for aside from a printer (and there are solutions for that). And the dock connector actually is USB but that's besides the point.
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Originally Posted by Solicitous
- No ability to mount the device and drag'n drop files. This device requires the use of additional software to use the iPad. Software corrupts and library becomes corrupted....how does one recover from that? Hard drive fails on your PC, you're over. Have a system with the ability to drag'n drop, you can access all your files on any PC at anytime.
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I've never seen itunes become corrupted and I have used it extensively for years. And if your hard drive fails on your PC, you aren't over, that's what backups are for. And if you don't have a backup, that's your own fault and your iPad is the least of your worries about the information being gone. What files do you want on your iPad that you can't put there? That's what cloud computing is for, and that's where things are moving. Again, Apple is leading the movement, it's people stuck in the current that find these things limiting.
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Originally Posted by Solicitous
- For a device that apparently through Safari offers the best web experience ever...how can one not view flash sites???
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Flash is dying. Also, keep in mind that most flash utilizes mouse overs, how can you use mouse overs on a touch device? Not to mention the battery life and system resources utilized. Go to a flash site and check out your system resources, you will see what a hit they take because of flash. I am on the latest iMac with 8 GB of RAM, the cartier.com flash site uses the vast majority of my system resources on a computer orders of magnitude greater in power then the iPad.
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Originally Posted by Solicitous
- A device which you can buy a keyboard for and use as a desktop machine, how can one be expected to use it when you can not print from it???
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It's not meant to be a desktop/laptop replacement. You can use a bluetooth keyboard, which many of us Mac folks already have (again negating the need for USB) and you can print. THere are a number of apps for that.