Don't attack people!
Don't respond to the Anti-Apple Thread Trolls!
PLEASE IGNORE THEM!!!
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There is a connection that you can buy to plug into the Ipad connector that you can then plug a USB into it.
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I’ve been able to use the adapter for cameras to pull files from an SD card.
I got my iPad 1 today. 64g, 3g, case, extras- $400. Owner had to have the new one. I wanted one to play! I’m now waiting for it to load my music and pics. I will hae it to use tomorrow I guess, since I have about 30 g of music!!!
I know an easy solution to the inadequacies of the iPad........
Buy a "traditional computer".
File storage: To the cloud! Plenty of options for that.
bttt
saving for the morning
Better solution: get a laptop. Macbook Air > iPad2. Simple as that.
Anyone who starts out an iPad discussion whining that it doesn’t have a USB port doesn’t have enough of a clue about the platform to have a valid opinion - much less one worthy of the Wall Street Journal.
The iPad is something new. Really new. Disruptive technology new. That’s why it outsold in way less than a year all tablets ever combined. The whole “USB file system is needed so we can handle files like we do in Windows” FAILED. I’ve been fiddling with tablets since the Wang document system. I have two Newtons in a closet upstairs. Microsoft has been trying to make tablets happen for decades. Nobody did ... until the iPad. And it made it big WITHOUT USB. Without “files” as defined to users by techies.
The iPad is not a computer in the regular sense of the term. Short of what we hope are short lived technical limitations and lingering semantic paradigms, we don’t start or quit programs, save files in directory structures, or even attach physical media to transfer those materials. The focus is on the user experience as users perceive and need, and not on technical obscurities users have to internalize.
Of course the author questions the absence of a USB port re: file access, etc. He’s still living a 20th century computing paradigm. Welcome to 2011.
(Written and posted, of course from my iPad.)
lacks two of the most common and frequently used features of a traditional computer. It has no standard USB port for connecting a flash drive or external hard disk, so you can't move files into and out of it from these devices. And it doesn't have a systemwide, user-accessible file system like those on traditional computers.Those are the same problems that have plagued Apple's entire iPod line of music players, that's why they've never caught on with the public. ;')
I use GoodReader.
So get a book color and root it. Ipad with file system access. Love mine.
Anand of AnandTech.com uses a MacbookPro and a MacbookAir. He does not use an iPad, and does not plan to do so until at least the next generation of the device. See his review last week of the iPad2.
Good. The fewer people plugging things in, the better. We'll buy adapters for those who have an actual business need.
And it doesn't have a systemwide, user-accessible file system like those on traditional computers.
Good. Users losing their files on a computer is a common problem. What, you didn't put your .pab and .pst on a network drive before we reimaged your desktop? Oops. Or, we backup your My Documents, but you put your file someplace else, so it's gone. With the iPad, if you create or edit a document, it's just "there."
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DROP BOX - BETTER THAN FLASH DRIVE