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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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If me, or my friends want to share pics or whatever, we'd just give eachother the link to album online, or we'd just share the pics through some cloudbase thingie like dropbox, or simply email the pics.
It's much more practical. Esp with the iPhone (and now iPad). The friend select the pics he/she wants, and click send. Nowadays, with the huge mailboxes, this is no problem at all.
USB sticks, yuck... I've only found one practical use for it the past few years, and that's to put some boot-OS on it. Or to install a new BIOS-firmware.
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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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Difference is, most people paid for the CDs/DVDs. No consumer every paid for the flash app itself, so they won't be furious when the video player suddenly looks a tad different. It's the content that count.
(on a sidenote, I've been creating ISO's from my DVDs so I can just put the DVDs away. With the network-streamers nowadays, I don't need these kind of mediacarriers anymore. Put all the content on my NAS and I can watch it through the streamer at high-quality.)
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Originally Posted by Trubu
For me it is - with network scanning, cloud storage and email, I very rarely find a need to print anything anymore. And with the iPad, it's even more infrequent since I can easily carry around all of the PDFs and docs I need.
It'll still be nice to have that capability, though, for the rare occasions when I need it.
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Would be nice if I don't need to print my boarding passes anymore...