But I'm 95% certain that Apple would never put something as thick as a USB port or video out directly onto the iPad. They want to keep the base design minimal (and cheaper to build), and let the 10% of the market that wants the extra features pay for the clunky add ons. So, I'd be willing to bet a good $200, and give you 5 to 1 odds, that USB and video out doesn't come directly onto the iPad in the next year and a half.
Apple has a built in set of marketing tools that nobody else has, and they had good timing with the iPad.
Time to market is so crucial in the quickly progressing tech industry.
I phrased it poorly, sorry. Dropbox maintains a remote copy of your local dropbox folder. But this implies that you will have local copies of whatever is stored remotely; you still have your data if you're "off on summer vacation" and Dropbox happens to remove your account due to inactivity.
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Both had all the "something else" like usb ports, video out, memory card slots, all the crap that supposedly everyone wants...
Would you like to bet that all 3 of those make it into the iPad over the next 1.5 years?
The iPad already has video out. And it does support memory card slots and USB for importing photos.
But I'm 95% certain that Apple would never put something as thick as a USB port or video out directly onto the iPad. They want to keep the base design minimal (and cheaper to build), and let the 10% of the market that wants the extra features pay for the clunky add ons. So, I'd be willing to bet a good $200, and give you 5 to 1 odds, that USB and video out doesn't come directly onto the iPad in the next year and a half.
Apple has a built in set of marketing tools that nobody else has, and they had good timing with the iPad.
Time to market is so crucial in the quickly progressing tech industry.
I phrased it poorly, sorry. Dropbox maintains a remote copy of your local dropbox folder. But this implies that you will have local copies of whatever is stored remotely; you still have your data if you're "off on summer vacation" and Dropbox happens to remove your account due to inactivity.
Dropbox maintains a local copy of all of your files. So you don't actually lose anything.