Yes, Apple simplifies so many things - at the expense of useful features at times.
Yes, and recently, it has become more and more useful features that are nixed. Besides, I don't think of, say, nixing Disk Mode (USB Mass Storage) as a "simplification". It makes it much harder to bring, say, a document or a portable app with you.
No, obviously I presume too much..... the only reason I would want those ports is to have them in case I needed them (hence "play with").
It's far too easy to want things "just in case", of course... so lets make it personal - would you use the slots you listed, with technology you now own - or do you want it just in case?
Yes, as a matter of fact I do. The USB hosting is used for a keyboard (at times), the CF-slot is used for general storage but also to import audio from recorder (I have Luci Edit on my pda), the SDHC slot is used for the SD card from my camera and as general storage and portable apps. Both ports are used for for music/entertainment depending where it comes from. Oh, and either (mostly the SD-slot) is used to dump documents I created on it. This way I can not only connect the somo directly (in essense use it as a card reader, but I can also just use the card directly in a reader.
So, yes, I do use them. I do miss a Firewire connection for my recorder, though, but as it can record both to the internal HDD, the CF-card and a FW-connected cardreader (with a card in it) or a FW-connected HDD or optical drive, it's not a real problem.
Btw, I also use th SDHC-slot on my Cowon D2, It's quite neat, it can also be used as a "card reader" because of UMS.
Circular logic. We're not talking about an iPhone, we're talking about a mythical Tablet that you're then guessing will run in certain ways.
It's not circular at all. As I stated "If the iPhone/touch is anything to go by". And it should be something to go by, since it's the very form factor we're talking about, and since the fanboys think of them as "pdas", those are the most likely "take off point".
Naturally it is disappointing when the Apple products do some things SO WELL, and then doesn't do some really basic and crucial things.
Recently, the "so well" has become a joke. In leopard you can't even SMS via the phone (over BT) from your address book anymore. "Simplification"? Hardly.
Otherwise it'd be easy - you wouldn't be discussing Apple products and would happily be on a different discussion board.
I never said I didn't like a good discussion.
The thing is, my next computer will be a dual boot thinkpad (think hackintosh), simply because I think Apple's products have become sub par in so many ways. And you'll never catch me with an iPod (anymore).
...hehe.... I can do all sorts of things but I can't, and in order to not be able to do these things I have to be tied in?
What are you saying? You're claiming you can do all of that on your iPhone/Touch? That you can mail yourself a file, then connect your Touch/iPhone to a computer, and dump it on that computer? No, you have to mail it to yourself, and then to this X-computer go to webmail, having to circumvent the touch/phone completely. Therefore you cannot us it as thumb drive as a pda can.
My point was, that because it's mostly software, then in theory most is possible, but in reality, you can't do much with either of those products.
Either genuinely anguished and unable to work out what you really want, or flame bait?
Neither. Never met anyone with an opinion?
How about that. Take that Wii
