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iPad Camera Connection Kit Shipping in Late April

DMann said:
Mathematically challenged, you say?

This is quite the condescending statement, especially coming from someone who extolls characteristics of being technically challenged.
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To his advantage he does have a point, but sorry Aiden... Pure NAND is most definitely better than some most likely USB controlled SD port. The opt in Storage approach could be best compared to the first iterations of the 360.

I would prefer the inbuilt storage option IMO especially if its going to be faster. I've never needed more than 16GB for anything.
 
MorphingDragon said:
To his advantage he does have a point, but sorry Aiden... Pure NAND is most definiately better than some most likely USB controlled SD port. The opt in Storage approach could be best compared to the first iterations of the 360.

I would prefer the inbuilt storage option IMO especially if its going to be faster. I've never needed more than 16GB for anything.
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Precisely - not to mention that carrying around a bunch of SDs laden with hand written inscriptions would be regressively reminiscent of the 'floppy disk days.' :)
 
The Mad Hatter said:
Well gee guy, maybe it's also because not everyone uses SD cards. The one one I use any more is in my Wii. All my cameras use CF cards (including my PnS). So to me, adapters are a better choice. A built-in USB might have been nice, but not a SD slot (I'm still fuming that they put one in the MBPs.) :mad:
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Well, if you used your brain just a little bit, you could then buy the 16GB (i.e.cheap) iPad and insert a how-many-GB-you-want SD card for half the price compared to the margin you will be paying for the 64GB iPad. That is, if the iPad had the SD slot (and ability to use it as extra disk space).

But I see, you prefer to spend $100 for 16GB of flash memory. Now you are exactly a person the Apple ecosystem needs. (As someone owning Apple stoct I am also happy that you exist ;) .)

And, could you please elaborate on how the presence of SD slot on the MBPs is making your user experience worse compared to a MBP without the slot?

The Mad Hatter said:
Oh, and BTW... how is Apple like Microsoft when it comes to the ports issue? Microsoft is a SW company, not a HW company (unless you are refering to the Xbox or Zune.)
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MS does HW (keyboards, mice, etc.) and SW (actualy, their HW is better than their SW ;) ). But my point was that Apple is starting to act like MS. An example:

MS: Why don't we screw up Java, html, ... (choose what you want) a little bit, so that people will want to use only IE because the not-standard-compliant (MS-screwed-"standard"-compliant) web sites will only work well in MS IE?

Apple: Safari is the best for you, therefore no other browser (e.g. Opera) will be allowed on the iPhone/iPad (app store) because it just does what Safari is doing. Who cares that Opera mini is 5x faster (on slow connections, i.e. in the only situation when speed actually matters)?

I am really happy that at least in European Union, all mobile phones will have to have a mini USB connector for charging so that power supplies will become universal. I bet that Apple will include (on the iPhone) the connector for charging (because they will not have other choice in Europe) but they will not allow you to use the port for anything else...
 
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BTW on CF cards

"Some prosumer and professional camera models continue to offer CompactFlash, either on a second card slot or as the only storage, as it has historically offered a better price/capacity ratio and faster transfer rates."
 
Darkroom said:
why didn't apple just build an iPad with a USB port and SD Card slot?
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Its the same question we have been asking since the iPhone was released. Apple is not going to come out with a model with SD. If they do its totally out of character for them. I think it has something to do with FLASH memory commitments with its memory suppliers..... If you can buy a 16GB model and you know you can expand it later with your own memory card of any brand. Having no way to expand makes you order the 32gb or 64gb version. Apple sells more memory fulfilling sales its sales commitments with mem suppliers.
 
slackpacker said:
Its the same question we have been asking since the iPhone was released. Apple is not going to come out with a model with SD. If they do its totally out of character for them. I think it has something to do with FLASH memory commitments with its memory suppliers..... If you can buy a 16GB model and you know you can expand it later with your own memory card of any brand. Having no way to expand makes you order the 32gb or 64gb version. Apple sells more memory fulfilling sales its sales commitments with mem suppliers.
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Forgot to tell that Apple is making easy money in the process.
 
No Compact Flash = Fail.

I'm not the only one looking forward to a nice portable display for field work. They're cutting out a lot of affluent DSLR users in a pinch. So much for "creativity".
 
marksman said:
You really don't get it.


Add them all and you easily add $100 of just COST to each device over its lifetime.

At the end of the day I don't want my $499 iPad costing me $699 at the lowest price point because you want a built in sd slot.

Heck factor in all the things people think this thing must have, and the device would have to sell for $999 at the lowest price point.
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$11.95 All day here.
http://www.topsellings.com/en/sl-sdmmc-memory-card-reader-mp3-player-128m-2gheadset-p140.html?language=en&currency=USD

What I'm getting at is SD is no big deal to add cost wise.
 
deconstruct60 said:
This specific aspect is correct. But this never was about technology it is really about design and priorities. If changed the design critieria for the iPad one could be put in. This issue is with the design they have how do you put it in.

Battery life , relatively large screen , how it feels in your hand are all higher on the design priority list than SD Card slot.
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You are just assuming that the decision of not putting an SD Card slot has to do with design priorities. Instead, I believe that adding an SD Card slot in the current enclosure (or slightly different, but not compromised) will not pose any design challenge. I go as far as believing that even an USB port could be added. After all Apple designed the enclosure, it's not an off-the-shelf component.

The reason lays elsewhere.
 
fat phil said:
No Compact Flash = Fail.

I'm not the only one looking forward to a nice portable display for field work. They're cutting out a lot of affluent DSLR users in a pinch. So much for "creativity".
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Well, I was hoping to be able to create a tethered shooting rig for my urban landscape photos, with the iPad fixed on the side of the tripod, a simple usb cable connecting the camera, and a remote shooting app.
 
fifthworld said:
You are just assuming that the decision of not putting an SD Card slot has to do with design priorities. Instead, I believe that adding an SD Card slot in the current enclosure (or slightly different, but not compromised) will not pose any design challenge. I go as far as believing that even an USB port could be added. After all Apple designed the enclosure, it's not an off-the-shelf component.

The reason lays elsewhere.
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I don't think it is really a matter of being a design challenge, but rather it would pose a threat to their ideas of a seamless design. I'm with you thinking that they could work out a way of putting various ports, card readers etc. in there, but it doesn't follow Apple's design philosophy.
 
Bubba Satori said:
$60 billion in the bank. :apple:
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Edit: Picture of tub of Vaseline removed because zombies and cultists don't have a sense of humor and might be offended by the fact that glorious cult leader Steve Snobs is *ss *aping them with a another expensive adaptor they shouldn't have to buy to make their overpriced semi-functional device work properly?

This was deliberately phrased as a question. What do you think? Differently? Are you still allowed to? Do you dare?
Head over to Youtube and watch the 1984 commercial.
You are not a number. Be seeing you. $100 billion in the bank.
 
Padriac said:
Number of people complaining about wanting a camera on the iPad: many.

Number of people who wouldn't do more than take a few token pictures with their iPad camera and then not really ever use it again (just like the webcam on laptops now): many.
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You are right. But, along the same lines, number of people never drive faster than 130 km/h nor they produce more than 6 GB of data, nor they use more 5% of the processor power of their computers: many.

Nevertheless, any car has a top speed more than 130 km/h, you can't buy a computer with 6GB disk space, or a computer with a processing power of an intel 286.

The point is that having a camera on a laptop does not harm anyone who does not use it (as it costs/weights close to nothing). On the other hand not having a camera will harm those who use and need it. I personally don't use a camera a lot, I never used a SD slot either. But still, I want them to be present on a computer device, because it gives me future flexibility and freedom, and it is useful to other people who use them.

You can say, go buy a non-Apple product that has everything. The problem is I like Mac OS X, which Apple is not willing to license for running on other companies' (better suited for me) hardware. In this sense, they are misusing their power, much like Microsoft does. And that is not nice.
 

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fifthworld said:
Well, I was hoping to be able to create a tethered shooting rig for my urban landscape photos, with the iPad fixed on the side of the tripod, a simple usb cable connecting the camera, and a remote shooting app.
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Same. A lot of DSLR cinematography folk have been eyeing up the potential for an external monitor/controller for their 7D/5DMkii rigs as well. There's a nice pot of money waiting there for anyone with the drive (and Accessory Programme certificate).
 
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