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To be precise, what you would like is a USB port and software support for what could be a subtly wide range of peripherals. A USB port brings the expectation o
by T-hawk 16y ago
To be precise, what you would like is a USB port and software support for what could be a subtly wide range of peripherals. A USB port brings the expectation of seamless software support for all of the following:
- removable storage
- wired networking
- audio speakers
- scanners
- printers
- cameras
- keyboard
- mouse/trackball
- joypad input
- any of a million other HID inputs like fingerprint readers, graphics tablets, biometric sensors...
I can understand Apple wanting to avoid opening that Pandora's box. Do all those device vendors really want to write and support iOS drivers in addition to all their other platforms? Does Apple really want to be involved in vetting and approving driver code for all that? Does Apple want the inevitable support burden for when those devices don't work?
- bane 16y agoGood points all, but I really just want to be able to hook it up as a peripheral via usb, not the funky and extremely proprietary iDevice connector. Hooking up my Android devices to anything and everything as a peripheral via usb has proven useful numerous times. In several cases it has literally saved the day while my colleagues sat there in silence brandishing useless (for that moment) iPhones and iPads. Not using a standard old USB port on iDevices has mystified me since they iPods first started coming out. (oh, and since I'm wishing here, SD card support would be super great too)