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Originally Posted by lifevicarious
E-mail them or put them on a cloud somewhere. I'm not saying it couldn't be useful but I personally would much prefer not having an extra device and an extra expense when I can do what you are mentioning in other, more efficient methods. And if you are referring to a huge file, the iPad probably can't do much with it anyway.
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Fair enough. I just prefer jump drives, drag and drop etc. to cloud storage etc. And I'm mainly just talking pdfs, word docs etc. as I'm a professor and my main need for a tablet is reading and marking up documents.
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Flash will die far more quickly now. Companies are getting rid of flash daily now, especially since 1 million have been sold. Most flash on the web is advertisements and it pretty much all requires mouseovers. Even if Flash was on the iPad, other then video, you couldn't do much with it. BUt I can understand why people would want it, I use my iPhone constantly and the lack of flash has never been limiting to me.
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Streaming video would be a HUGE use of any tablet for me, just like it is on my laptop currently.
My main hobbies are movies, TV and sports. The iPad has some use on that front with the Netflix App, ABC app etc. But currently you're out of luck for CBS or Fox shows, stuff on Hulu, ESPN 360 etc. And of course Porn--which could be a big draw to an Apple tablet for me with the negligible risk of viruses/malware vs. PCs.
Again, down the road maybe a non-issue. But a huge draw back for the near future for me.
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Originally Posted by rrburton
I just wanted to comment that I am glad that the iPad doesn't have/do all of these things. They are not necessary for the intended functionality. I'd almost go as far as saying that the problem is not the device, it's the users.
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I can agree with that to some extent. The issue for me and others is Apple doesn't give a crap about power users, business users, academic users etc. They make tech toys basically (outside of their PCs and laptops of course), not productivity tools. So the iPad just isn't meant for people like me. We'll have to wait for a business oriented tablet to come out.
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Originally Posted by nikkie
Well, the computer end is USB, and that's all that's needed for this scenario. And for apps that support it, you can just open itunes and drop the files into the apps you want. Also, you can jailbreak and drag and drop files pretty easily too if you want. I used to add files to a jailbroken iPod Touch via usb.
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Yes, but that's very clunky IMO--especially if you have say multiple PDF readers and have to drop files individually into each (though that should be fixed in the future with the update adding a central file location).
Doesn't matter for some, but I won't buy a tablet that doesn't have a traditional file system.
I don't need a full tablet PC, but I need something that leans more towards productivity tool and less towards media consumption toy.