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From: zoara on 28 Jan 2010 20:03 Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: > > > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > > Bella Jones <me9(a)privacy.net> wrote: > > > > > > > And why doesn't it have any ports? > > > > > > I must admit that it would be a hell of a lot more useful as a > > > photographers toy if it had some way of getting pictures off a camera, > > > such as a single USB port. > > > > There's an accessory that allows you to connect an SD card, and another > > (in the same box?) that allows you to connect a camera. The latter is > > basically a dock to USB-A adapter; so it would be physically possible to > > connect other USB devices to an iPad. Whether they'd be supported > > (third-party software?) is a different question... > > Well, that is good that you can, but one USB port on the device itself > wouldn't have been too much of a technical challenge would it? I think it's a philosophical decision. > I feel that will be corrected in later hardware. Tenner on the table says it never gets an internal USB port. -z- -- "And the tiny universe compiles." http://powazek.com/posts/1655
From: Woody on 28 Jan 2010 20:44 zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > > zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: > > > > > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > > > Bella Jones <me9(a)privacy.net> wrote: > > > > > > > > > And why doesn't it have any ports? > > > > > > > > I must admit that it would be a hell of a lot more useful as a > > > > photographers toy if it had some way of getting pictures off a camera, > > > > such as a single USB port. > > > > > > There's an accessory that allows you to connect an SD card, and another > > > (in the same box?) that allows you to connect a camera. The latter is > > > basically a dock to USB-A adapter; so it would be physically possible to > > > connect other USB devices to an iPad. Whether they'd be supported > > > (third-party software?) is a different question... > > > > Well, that is good that you can, but one USB port on the device itself > > wouldn't have been too much of a technical challenge would it? > > I think it's a philosophical decision. > > > I feel that will be corrected in later hardware. > > Tenner on the table says it never gets an internal USB port. ok. Of course, a tenner at some point in the iPads life cycle may be worth less than it is now! -- Woody www.alienrat.com
From: Chris Ridd on 29 Jan 2010 02:07 On 2010-01-29 01:03:12 +0000, zoara said: > Tenner on the table says it never gets an internal USB port. Even when iPhones get their required (by ITU for all phones) mini-USB ports? Or do we think those will come via dock adapters? -- Chris
From: Woody on 29 Jan 2010 04:26 On 29/01/2010 01:03, zoara wrote: > Stephen2<Stephen(a)mailinator.com> wrote: > > But I don't think that means we'll see an exposed filesystem. I think > Apple are making a concerted effort to leave that concept behind; it's > being abstracted out of the user's experience in the same way that an > automatic car abstracts the gear/clutch out of the driver's experience > (thanks, John Gruber). John Gruber invented the automatic gearbox? -- Woody
From: Jim on 29 Jan 2010 04:33
On 2010-01-29, Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > On 29/01/2010 01:03, zoara wrote: >> Stephen2<Stephen(a)mailinator.com> wrote: >> >> But I don't think that means we'll see an exposed filesystem. I think >> Apple are making a concerted effort to leave that concept behind; it's >> being abstracted out of the user's experience in the same way that an >> automatic car abstracts the gear/clutch out of the driver's experience >> (thanks, John Gruber). > > John Gruber invented the automatic gearbox? Damn, that man's talented. Jim -- http://www.ursaMinorBeta.co.uk http://twitter.com/GreyAreaUK "Get over here. Now. Might be advisable to wear brown trousers and a shirt the colour of blood." Malcolm Tucker, "The Thick of It" |