No USB ports on Ipad!
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From: -hh on 28 Mar 2010 20:39 nospam <nos...(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > > many cellphones and cameras have usb, but i guarantee that your usb > cable won't fit in it. i guess it must be pointless. strangely enough, > it's very useful. > > usb has many different plug types. first there were type a and b plugs, > then mini usb, then micro usb, and usb 3 is yet *another* variant that > needs completely new cables. so much for being standard. I had been vaguely aware of these seemingly-slight differences, but became painfully aware of the issue earlier this year, while I got dragged through a half dozen electronic stores in Paris on what had been a free afternoon off. The reason was because my traveling companion had forgotten to bring their allegedly standard, but sufficiently obscure USB permutation for which no one else's cable was able to fit. -hh
From: Kelsey Bjarnason on 28 Mar 2010 20:32 nospam wrote: > In article <auq487-cp4.ln1(a)spanky.localhost.net>, Kelsey Bjarnason > <kbjarnason(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> We actually have a TomTom for that. And, surprise, surprise, the >> >> netbook _and_ the TomTom together cost about as much as the higher-end >> >> MaxiPad - yet do a lot more. >> > >> > obviously, convenience is not high on your list. two separate devices >> > which weigh a lot more than 1.5 pounds and no augmented reality >> > functionality, so it actually does *less*. >> >> You're claiming that a GPS system *plus a netbook* do *LESS* than a >> MaxiPad? > > yes i am. Then you're simply not intelligent enough to bother continuing with. Sorry, but that's the reality of it. Netbooks *alone* do far more than the MaxiPad can, and the fact the MaxiPad can perhaps do one or two things - such as GPS - which a netbook typically can't doesn't change that. In any case, you've just demonstrated you are, in fact, too freaking stupid to bother with further, so... plonk.
From: nospam on 28 Mar 2010 20:58 In article <ef3402e5-ba4c-44ac-bf9e-035afa3e8d28(a)q21g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>, -hh <recscuba_google(a)huntzinger.com> wrote: > I had been vaguely aware of these seemingly-slight differences, but > became painfully aware of the issue earlier this year, while I got > dragged through a half dozen electronic stores in Paris on what had > been a free afternoon off. The reason was because my traveling > companion had forgotten to bring their allegedly standard, but > sufficiently obscure USB permutation for which no one else's cable was > able to fit. how can that be? i read here that usb is bog standard.
From: nospam on 28 Mar 2010 20:58 In article <o78587-opd.ln1(a)spanky.localhost.net>, Kelsey Bjarnason <kbjarnason(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hmm? You mean USB 3? Which is backwards compatible? And supports the > approximately 10 *billion* USB devices shipped thus far? usb 3 requires new cables. if apple did that, you'd be screaming.
From: nospam on 28 Mar 2010 20:59
In article <cs8587-67e.ln1(a)spanky.localhost.net>, Kelsey Bjarnason <kbjarnason(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Err... let me get this straight: your argument is that cost to support > USB isn't free, so that's a reason not to include USB, but cost to > support Apple's interface isn't free, so that's *not* a reason to not > include Apple's interface? the ipod dock connector is *not* going to be replaced with usb ports, since that would remove significant functionality. thus, adding usb ports is an *extra* cost. > > the ipod is significantly smaller and lighter than any netbook > > So's the iPhone, and it actually has a *phone* in it. You know, like, > it does pretty much every useful feature of the MaxiPad, plus a phone, > in what, a tenth the space? except that the iphone comes with a 2 year contract and the ipad doesn't, plus the difference in screen sizes, among other things. > > and the > > dock connector has been around since 2003, making it a standard too. > > Really? Good. Where do I find the dock connector on my HP laptop? On > my Dell PC? On the wife's LG netbook? On my external HD case, which > seems to only have eSata and USB? why would any of those devices have an *ipod dock connector*? they're not ipods. > Hmm. *All* those devices (plus my two media machines, at least one of > my TV's for crying out loud, my digital cam, my TomTom, etc, etc, etc, > etc, etc)... they *all* have USB support. You know, as in a *standard* > connector. the ipod dock connector is standard too. |