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Originally Posted by Solicitous
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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you can pay $30 for the photo adapter and load your pictures off of a usb jumpdrive. you just need to stick them in a directory called DCIM and the ipad will read them just fine. same works if you put them on a SD card and use the SD card adapter. a little extra money spent, and a little hackery to get it done, but it can be done.
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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).
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most phones don't print natively and the few that do require specific printers and don't have global drivers. that's the hardest part with printing off an ipad. what drivers do you load? and with what mechanism? it isn't in the 3.x OS currently, but jobs has hinted that is is coming. given that it is a software upgrade it hopefully will be something that all versions of the ipad will be able to do. for now, you use a 3rd party system, or you transfer back to your desktop and print from there.