wires and things to plug in = a step backwards
Having a really slow wireless drive that needs it's own power source/batteries to connect isn't ideal either. Most of the reviews I've read on wireless drives usually ends with "slow connection" or "dead battery".
They should have a bloody USB port on the side and a proper filesystem.
Hopefully this is coming with the iPad Pro. Baby steps.
Nice, although it's a shame it seems to only be USB 2.0.
Well all currently shipping iOS devices are USB 2.0, so from that end it wouldn't matter. Only benefit would be on the PC/Mac. Maybe the power requirements would be too high for the iOS device? Not sure how forward compatible they are.
Too small. There should be a 512GB version.
The only decent 512GB stick I could find on Amazon is about $450 by Kingston. Add on MFI certification tax and yeah, maybe 100 people buy that $500 device. Not worth the manufacturing at this point.
I hope it comes with an option to delete photos from iPhone after importing
That would be a nice feature. My grandpa likes to dump his photos to his iPad while on vacation to review them, and delete the ones he doesn't like. But he bought a 16GB iPad like many people because he figured Apple wouldn't sell him something that would immediately fill up, even though I told him it would. If this thing works well and auto clears the photos, then I might pick one up for him.
I was thinking USB and Thunderbolt. I don't care about Lightning.
Good luck sticking a USB or Thunderbolt into the Lightning port on every iOS device then.
Thats what I find odd. There should also be a USB port on the iPad/iPhone or a lightinging port on a Mac.
And what exactly would you plug into a Lightning port on a Mac? It uses USB for data, and most Lightning cables have a standard male USB on the other end. Good luck plugging that into any peripheral device.
USB port on the iPad would be neat, but you'd also need support for it. How do you install drivers? Maybe you could get around that by using an app for each device you plugin, and then use extensions to get the data where it needs to go inside of other apps. Also there is no proper file system, which will hopefully be addressed in an iPad Pro type device out of sheer necessity.
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If Apple gets their crap together with iCloud Photo Library then this thing wouldn't be necessary for me. As it stands now I can't get iCloud Photo Library to sync between my devices, nor does it keep optimized versions on my device so I've turned it off. But it's pretty cool and I could see certain people using this, especially those who don't have wireless access when out and about or just want to quickly dump photos. Hopefully it has deep iOS 8 support for getting at the files easily, or allowing extensions to handle and manipulate the files.
