No USB ports on Ipad!
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From: ZnU on 24 Mar 2010 11:54 In article <313kq5hkc6t9jmj0mmqird8pf3oasvu36i(a)4ax.com>, chrisv <chrisv(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > Mocassin joe wrote: > > >So how is it then that they can be as greedy as you claim they are > >... and yet fail to add a USB port in order to rake in more gold? > > > >Please explain. > > Look, it's pretty obvious that Apple's game is sell you applications > and media. To encourage to to buy your applications and media from > them, and not someone else, they have various methods of locking-down > their systems. Their desire to do this offsets the additional appeal > that the product would gain by having things like USB ports and > SD-card slots. > > Good for Apple, I'm sure. Good for the customer, IMO no, in spite of > the existence an the large cult following that has implicate faith > that Apple knows what's best for them. Apple makes *far* more money from hardware sales than from media and app sales. The reason the iPad lacks USB ports is because Apple has a very specific vision for how computing should work, and dangling cables off of your ultra-portable tablet doesn't fit into it. Nor do SD cards, at least, I think, until Apple figures out a way to support storage across multiple volumes without re-introducing a user-accessible file system. Many of Apple's critics don't take these sorts of aesthetic issues seriously, and so believe Apple must have specific profit-driven reasons for the design decisions it makes. But I've been watching Apple for a long time, and I'm quite Apple takes these aesthetic issues very, very seriously, and they are absolutely willing to make risky product design decisions on that basis alone. > >Steve Jobs. He seems to know what's good for you. > > He seems to know what's good for Apple, which is his job. -- "The game of professional investment is intolerably boring and over-exacting to anyone who is entirely exempt from the gambling instinct; whilst he who has it must pay to this propensity the appropriate toll." -- John Maynard Keynes
From: chrisv on 24 Mar 2010 12:18 ZnU wrote: >The reason the iPad lacks USB ports is because Apple has a >very specific vision for how computing should work, and dangling cables >off of your ultra-portable tablet doesn't fit into it. Nor do SD cards, >at least, I think, until Apple figures out a way to support storage >across multiple volumes without re-introducing a user-accessible file >system. Spoken like a True Believer. BTW, is the iPad really "ultra" portable? And does using a USB port imply "dangling cables"? >I've been watching Apple for a >long time, and I'm quite Apple takes these aesthetic issues very, very >seriously, and they are absolutely willing to make risky product design >decisions on that basis alone. Even when it results in technically bad designs. Witness that joke of a keyboard on their desktop systems. Witness the laughable speakers. So fashionable, I admit...
From: nospam on 24 Mar 2010 13:34 In article <hocgqm$jgk$00$2(a)news.t-online.com>, Peter K�hlmann <peter-koehlmann(a)t-online.de> wrote: > >> Translation: Nothing exists which you can simply carry around. > > > > yet you want usb ports to plug in hard drives and printers and whatever > > else. you can't even keep your own story straight. > > Right. Why would I not want that? so you want usb not because of any particular need for it, but just because it's another item on a checklist. got it. > After all, without those, the iPad is basically a oversized iPod. and the ipod is a very successful product. > And what is this "not keeping the story straight" thing? you said you want usb ports to plug in peripherals but then put a limitation on how big they can be. can't have it both ways. > It was you fanboiz who tried every trick in the book to obfuscate the fact > that your overpriced toy does not even have something as simple and basic > as a USB connector a lot of devices don't and it doesn't seem to be a problem.
From: nospam on 24 Mar 2010 13:34 In article <hod53h$1e1$00$1(a)news.t-online.com>, Peter K�hlmann <peter-koehlmann(a)t-online.de> wrote: > Exactly. Either the iPad is simply a vastly overpriced eBook reader. Then > it is OK to have the limitations it has. the kindle dx costs $10 less than the ipad and has *more* limitations. why isn't that 'vastly overpriced' ?? because it's not apple. <http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Wireless-Reading-Display-Generation/dp/B00 15TG12Q>
From: nospam on 24 Mar 2010 13:34
In article <4baa2dca$1(a)news.x-privat.org>, Ian Hilliard <nospam(a)hilliardtech.com> wrote: > A typical user IS going to want to transfer content in an out using a > USB-Stick. A typical user is going to want to hook up to a camera using > a USB cable. you've done surveys? didn't think so. > A typical user is occasionally going to want to connect to > an Ethernet cable. it's *far* more convenient to use wifi. > This would have been possible with an Apple USB to > Ethernet adapter. A typical user is going to want to be able to back up > their system using a USB drive. it's trivial to back up an ipad, ipod touch or iphone. oddly enough, it's via usb. |