jdenoyon:
Well, as the iPad has NO USB port and no card reading slot, the use of SD cards is moot! No cd/dvd drive, no card reading slots, no USB port, nada. They don’t need to release any sort of update to prevent use of ‘third party SD card readers.’ I know this because I’ve done a fair amount of research on the iPad 2. Right now, the lack of a cd/dvd drive and a usb port are what is stopping me from getting one. I regard the keypad as genius. The screen/monitor is also outstanding. (I don’t know why they felt it in their best interest to leave out such key components on what could have otherwise been potentially the greatest system available!) In other words, if I have data I need on the iPad but that data is stored on another device, I’d have to email it to myself to store it on the iPad! Also, to ~put~ data in an external device, I’d again have to email said data myself and retrieve/transfer the data to data storage on another computer… That’s a lot of extra work if you’re dealing with a lot of data that needs backup storage.
This is an old thread, but I need to point out that you are badly mistaken. There are plenty of “cloud” apps for storing data, and quite a few apps that allow data to be transferred to the iPad - I use both.
Oh, and Apple didn’t include an optical drive for obvious reasons.
(posted from my iPad2)