<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Also the rest of the mobile device market is forced to use usb connectors as a standard to save on waste. Apple yesterday stated they are the biggest mobile device company in the world, so how come they get away with it?<div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 28 Jan 2010, at 11:28, Christopher Gutteridge wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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The lack of a built in USB socket is pretty bloody stupid. It's not
like they don't make tiny USB connectors.<br>
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The lack of an infrared output is a miss, as having this double as a
universal remote would make so much sense.<br>
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<pre wrap="">Couple of thoughts:
Since the IPad can connect to digital cameras, it must be able to do USB Host mode, place your bets on how long until we see a dock connector camera, either from Apple or by jailbreak?
Second, can't someone invent a wireless VGA connector? Having to sit in the chair and present cos the iPad had to be tethered down looked a little lame.
Dave T
On 28 Jan 2010, at 10:30, Tim Chown wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 09:48:08AM +0000, m.c. schraefel wrote:
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<pre wrap="">i still miss the newton - or what might have been an iSlate, as in with pen.
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<pre wrap="">Hmm, I'd prefer some device midway between the iPad and the iPhone in
size, something that fits in a jacket pocket that just does what an iPhone
does but bigger.
I can see a market for the iPad though, but not moved to buy one yet :)
Tim
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Christopher Gutteridge -- <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/cjg">http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/cjg</a>
Lead Developer, EPrints Project, <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://eprints.org/">http://eprints.org/</a>
Web Projects Manager, School of Electronics and Computer Science,
University of Southampton.
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