[X4U] iPad news

[Paul Moortgat]

In a newspaper in Belgium is an article about the iPad.  It's called  
"The flop of the year."
They'll wait for iPad2.  Their complaints: Flash, multitasking, Led  
screen, no camera, virtual keyboard.

Paul Moortgat


On 29 Jan 2010, at 20:21, Nick Scalise wrote:

> ---- Michael Winter <winter at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> I really thought Apple was moving away from the proprietary cable/
>> connector idea. Get rid of the "keyboard dock" and everything else  
>> and
>> put in a couple USB ports.
>
> That would be silly. How would other devices communicate with it then?
>
> Do you know how many pieces of hardware connect with the dock  
> connector to add some sort of external function?
>
> Plus, in their last release or maybe the one before, they made it so  
> that the iPod could control other company's hardware. Think barcode  
> scanners, medical devices, testing devices, the possibilities are  
> endless.
>
> To get rid of a smart connector and replace with dumb usb ports  
> would be corporate suicide.
>
> --
> Nick Scalise
> nickscalise at cox.net