Just get Apple Lightning to USB patch cable for $20 and use your existing flash drive. This bundle will cost 10 times less for any capacity listed.
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iStick Flash Drive with USB and Lightning Allows File Transfers Between Mac and iOS Devices
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Yes, it's a great 'concept' product, but the price is crazy.
Just wait a few months, and then a slew of Taiwanese and China-made copycat products will flood the market, doing the exact same thing as the iStick.
The funny thing is, the Chinese copycat companies don't even need to resort to begging for Kickstarter funding. They simply don't. Whenever they see any kind of innovative American product, they simply study it, they reverse engineer it, and then they release the copycat product within months, for less than half the cost of the American original.
That's a good reason not to get this. But I don't take anything he says seriously so I'll take a serious look into this. But at it's current price it's a no go for me.
That's just too expensive. I'll pass.
I really do hate USB sticks that slide in and out, they keep sliding in when you try to insert them, they don't seem to latch properly. I'ts a shame so many of them are like that now.
I really do hate USB sticks that slide in and out, they keep sliding in when you try to insert them, they don't seem to latch properly. I'ts a shame so many of them are like that now.
This iStick Flash Drive concept is already a generic design in the world of dual port OTG flash drives for Android devices, well-known manufacturers like Sandisk, Kingston and Transcend already sell a similar product with a Micro USB on one end and a normal USB on the other. The prices are only a little more expensive than a standard thumb drive of a similar capacity.
We keep hearing how extortionate it is to license the Lightning plug design, so what Kickstarters/Cheapo Far Eastern Companies need to produce is a thumb drive with two USB sockets on it - one end for standard Lightning cable supplied with every iDevice and the other for any USB thumb drive. Okay, so the whole contraption is gonna be a bit ungainly like a typical $3 Android OTG cable, but it will be a lot more versatile and you can bet your bottom dollar it won't need to cost $129...
If there is, you'll have to tell me how. All I've been able to do is sync iTunes-compatible media, not files in general.
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I think that's just blame shifting though. There are legitimate, Apple-licensed Lightning cables for $12, so licensing in no way excuses $400 for a 128GB stick.
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It's actually a ploy from Apple to show that their 128gb variant will be a "good value"
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What does Apple have to do with this? They aren't manufacturing this - this completely thought up, developed, and produced by a 3rd party. All Apple did was sell the license for use of the lightning port.
your sarcasm detectors. They were off that day.
A small problem with this iStick Flash Drive and many other officially licensed accessories is that Lightning plug will not fit into some types of cases, including some of Apple's own - such as their official leather cases for iPhone 5s and iPad Air! Apple's stringent design requirements for MFI accessories like speaker docks means that some users will need to take off their cases or else the Lightning plug will not make full contact with the device.
I couldn't agree with you more, Android and Blackberry devices both let you have access to the file system. I can download a PDF on my Blackberry and attach it to another clients email with no problem. Try that on your iPhone 6?