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Originally Posted by lifevicarious
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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Simple, "oh here are my photos on my thumb drive....er you have an ipad, never mind I shall get them to you somehow". Me like the rest of the world use USB thumbdrives, if I were to have a device. Yes, the dock connector is USB, but not a standard USB connector on the iPad. Majority of my devices have a small USB port, so I leave a cable plugged into my PC and just connect whatever device as and when needed without having to try and locate the correct cable. Just making my life simpler and not at the mercy of a particular company.
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Originally Posted by lifevicarious
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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I do go to flash sites and my resources are not that heavily utilised (core duo 1.6, 2gb ram, Ubuntu). Who says flash is dying? People said years ago that Java was dying, then claimed Perl was dying, even to the extent that Cobol was dead. They may not be as heavily used now as they once were, but there is something called LEGACY support. Who uses CDs now? DVDs are so much cheaper and hold far more data, better remove the functionality to read CDs on all news PCs.
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Originally Posted by lifevicarious
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.
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I am being serious and not rude or demeaning towards the iPad, I think the concept of the device is good, but I don't quite understand this statement. iPad doesn't print natively, but there are apps you can install to provide you with the printing ability. Why in this day and age is it acceptable for some devices to no perform the most basic functions out of the box that we all perform?? Is printing like Flash, dying and Apple are moving us into the future?? Heck even my mobile phone will print to a printer (don't know why you'd want to print from a mobile phone, but it does).