2. Make an appointment with an Apple Genius. You might even be able to get somewhere over the phone.
Most likely this is a bug in their software/hardware that needs an update to resolve. I say that because Apple has little interest in disabling their own hardware.
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Since the OS4.2 update, Apple have dropped the max current for the Camera Connection Kit to 20mA, which has pretty much wrecked it's usefulness for me.
Has anyone else had bother with this, and is there a workaround that anyone knows of?
Sorry, I should have said the Mac desktop beta. It is nowhere near Apple UI standards of refinement.
Ahhh...
Not used it yet, but it doesn't seem up to the par. That being said, Apple's idea of Beta is very different from Google's idea of Beta (and what people have come to expect of Betas, for that matter). Hopefully the issues will be worked out when it graduates from Beta.
Other than generating licensing fees and additional cables/adapters purchases, what is the iPod dock connector capable of that a USB connector is not?
Stereo analog line out, stereo analog line in (iPhone only), serial accessory communication and detection, composite video out. Which can all be performed simultaneously, USB can't handle all that.
Personally, I think it unlikely that Apple will add a USB port, partly due to it marring the iPad's clean exterior. Steve just wouldn't allow an extra port that isn't completely necessary, and will only have limited uses. I don't know anyone who downloads photos to their iPad directly from a camera, and certainly know no one that uses it for MIDI. Perhaps it'd be useful to transfer media between iPads and/or computers when WiFi isn't available, but due to copyright, I'd say that's unlikely.
Why do people constantly talk about USB as if it's a binary feature? I see so many comments such as, "I won't buy one until it has USB" or "without USB it's useless to me".
A USB port on an iPad in of itself does nothing.
What do you want the USB port to do?
Connect to printers?
Drivers would be needed.
Connect to networks?
Drivers would be needed.
Additionally software and the essence of the UI itself would need to be radically changed in many ways to accommodate everything we use USB for on desktops and notebooks.
I hear people all the time talking about how they want to connect cameras to bring HD video over directly to the iPad without thinking it through on exactly what that would mean (with files being larger than the storage of the iPad itself).
Instead of thinking "slap a USB on that sucker", how about talking about what use case you have and see if there's a better way to implement it with this new device type. For example, USB for printing isn't the way to go.
Yeah, I get that about Jobs. Hence I'm skeptical about an ugly, so-last-decade USB port besmirching the solid, seamless iPad. Battery compartments..gone. Latches...nearly invisible.
But I would have thought that about the lampshade iMacs. Apple did it in such an innovative, unusual way that it became a highlight of the product.
Same with 2-button mice. Steve Jobs put seams and holes in his mice? Not on your life. But then we have a seamless 2-button mouse. Then we have the nipple added later.
If they could figure out a very clever, brilliant, unusual way to add a way to prop up the iPad, it could just become a reality. I used the term 'kickstand' knowing that such a drab thing as what everyone usually thinks of (or how Dell would do it) will never occur.
But maybe there's a way we haven't thought of....... Apple's engineers are brilliant.
A seamless and invisible support...... named SIS.... not visible in photos so there would be none, you just have to believe it exists when you order. BTW I don't want to be a computer expert, so i am quite happy that even a moron can use a Mac. Makes it so much easier for normal people.
lol you people crack me up. what would be SO bad about Apple adding a USB port to iPad? it would provide an easy way to offload data. what's the downside?
Could they even add optical to the current Dock Connector design so that it?s backwards compatible with USB and LightPeak? How wiill Apple make the transition from copper to optical when it?ll be years before all their iDevice users have ?PCs? that support optical connectors?
EU is saying that we need to be able to charge using USB, iPad already charges using USB.
No, they are not. They are saying the charger must connect via a micro-USB plug. The cable itself could be a simple 2-wire DC wire coming from an AC adaptor, having nothing in common with USB other than the plug at the end. Sure, you could use a USB cable plugged into your computer, but that is not what they are saying. Only that the connector at the end of the wire be a micro-USB type B connector. In that, Apple's dock connector does not meet the standard.
No, they are not. They are saying the charger must connect via a micro-USB plug. The cable itself could be a simple 2-wire DC wire coming from an AC adaptor, having nothing in common with USB other than the plug at the end. Sure, you could use a USB cable plugged into your computer, but that is not what they are saying. Only that the connector at the end of the wire be a micro-USB type B connector. In that, Apple's dock connector does not meet the standard.
You lost me. If it?s the charger that needs to have micro-USB, and obviously a cable that can attach to micro-USB then how does Apple?s dock connector even come into the picture?
Apple will NEVER NEVER NEVER add USB to ipad... as ipad is for experiencing a new touching world where USB is nothing and only muti-touches mean SOMETHING !! Believe me, I understand very deeply about what Apple is doing .... NO USB will be added on ipad 2...!!
I'm sure you've heard the anecdote "Never Say Never," let alone saying it 3 times in the same sentence!
It will happen when enough people demand it!
@Bugsnw... As for a built in kickstand, I'm with AppleStud on that one. Jobs would allow cockroaches before he'd allow it.
2. Make an appointment with an Apple Genius. You might even be able to get somewhere over the phone.
Most likely this is a bug in their software/hardware that needs an update to resolve. I say that because Apple has little interest in disabling their own hardware.
Why did they turn down the backlight time so drastically with 4.2? There's no setting for it that I can find. It turns off in 30 seconds or so. No sense in reading a PDF or admiring a picture for very long unless you keep touching the screen. Seems like a backwards step to me. It would have been cool if they added a feature to 'control' the backlight time instead of just dropping it off to preserve battery life...
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2. Make an appointment with an Apple Genius. You might even be able to get somewhere over the phone.
Most likely this is a bug in their software/hardware that needs an update to resolve. I say that because Apple has little interest in disabling their own hardware.
Since the OS4.2 update, Apple have dropped the max current for the Camera Connection Kit to 20mA, which has pretty much wrecked it's usefulness for me.
Has anyone else had bother with this, and is there a workaround that anyone knows of?
Sorry, I should have said the Mac desktop beta. It is nowhere near Apple UI standards of refinement.
Ahhh...
Not used it yet, but it doesn't seem up to the par. That being said, Apple's idea of Beta is very different from Google's idea of Beta (and what people have come to expect of Betas, for that matter). Hopefully the issues will be worked out when it graduates from Beta.
Other than generating licensing fees and additional cables/adapters purchases, what is the iPod dock connector capable of that a USB connector is not?
Stereo analog line out, stereo analog line in (iPhone only), serial accessory communication and detection, composite video out. Which can all be performed simultaneously, USB can't handle all that.
Personally, I think it unlikely that Apple will add a USB port, partly due to it marring the iPad's clean exterior. Steve just wouldn't allow an extra port that isn't completely necessary, and will only have limited uses. I don't know anyone who downloads photos to their iPad directly from a camera, and certainly know no one that uses it for MIDI. Perhaps it'd be useful to transfer media between iPads and/or computers when WiFi isn't available, but due to copyright, I'd say that's unlikely.
A USB port on an iPad in of itself does nothing.
What do you want the USB port to do?
Connect to printers?
Drivers would be needed.
Connect to networks?
Drivers would be needed.
Additionally software and the essence of the UI itself would need to be radically changed in many ways to accommodate everything we use USB for on desktops and notebooks.
I hear people all the time talking about how they want to connect cameras to bring HD video over directly to the iPad without thinking it through on exactly what that would mean (with files being larger than the storage of the iPad itself).
Instead of thinking "slap a USB on that sucker", how about talking about what use case you have and see if there's a better way to implement it with this new device type. For example, USB for printing isn't the way to go.
My ignore list so far: annoymouse, sfloco, slopsism.
Hey Liverlips, how do we qualify for your "ignore" list? I wanna join the petite coterie you've listed!
I believe you are incorrect about meeting the EU's requirement.
I believe it is a voluntary standard, not a requirement. And for phones and not tablets.
Hey Liverlips, how do we qualify for your "ignore" list? I wanna join the petite coterie you've listed!
LOL gotta love the passive-agressive personal attacks in the names he?s listed.
Yeah, I get that about Jobs. Hence I'm skeptical about an ugly, so-last-decade USB port besmirching the solid, seamless iPad. Battery compartments..gone. Latches...nearly invisible.
But I would have thought that about the lampshade iMacs. Apple did it in such an innovative, unusual way that it became a highlight of the product.
Same with 2-button mice. Steve Jobs put seams and holes in his mice? Not on your life. But then we have a seamless 2-button mouse. Then we have the nipple added later.
If they could figure out a very clever, brilliant, unusual way to add a way to prop up the iPad, it could just become a reality. I used the term 'kickstand' knowing that such a drab thing as what everyone usually thinks of (or how Dell would do it) will never occur.
But maybe there's a way we haven't thought of....... Apple's engineers are brilliant.
A seamless and invisible support...... named SIS.... not visible in photos so there would be none, you just have to believe it exists when you order. BTW I don't want to be a computer expert, so i am quite happy that even a moron can use a Mac. Makes it so much easier for normal people.
Hey Liverlips, how do we qualify for your "ignore" list? I wanna join the petite coterie you've listed!
I'm actually quite honored to be on his ignore list!
Other than generating licensing fees and additional cables/adapters purchases, what is the iPod dock connector capable of that a USB connector is not?
Analog signals. Plus can handle a higher power load (i think).
Analog signals.
Signaling other than USB comes to mind.
Could they even add optical to the current Dock Connector design so that it?s backwards compatible with USB and LightPeak? How wiill Apple make the transition from copper to optical when it?ll be years before all their iDevice users have ?PCs? that support optical connectors?
EU is saying that we need to be able to charge using USB, iPad already charges using USB.
No, they are not. They are saying the charger must connect via a micro-USB plug. The cable itself could be a simple 2-wire DC wire coming from an AC adaptor, having nothing in common with USB other than the plug at the end. Sure, you could use a USB cable plugged into your computer, but that is not what they are saying. Only that the connector at the end of the wire be a micro-USB type B connector. In that, Apple's dock connector does not meet the standard.
No, they are not. They are saying the charger must connect via a micro-USB plug. The cable itself could be a simple 2-wire DC wire coming from an AC adaptor, having nothing in common with USB other than the plug at the end. Sure, you could use a USB cable plugged into your computer, but that is not what they are saying. Only that the connector at the end of the wire be a micro-USB type B connector. In that, Apple's dock connector does not meet the standard.
You lost me. If it?s the charger that needs to have micro-USB, and obviously a cable that can attach to micro-USB then how does Apple?s dock connector even come into the picture?
It is really cool, if iPad coming with USB and blu-ray (as "sflocal" mentioned in this post).
Dont forget the flux capacitor
Apple will NEVER NEVER NEVER add USB to ipad... as ipad is for experiencing a new touching world where USB is nothing and only muti-touches mean SOMETHING !! Believe me, I understand very deeply about what Apple is doing .... NO USB will be added on ipad 2...!!
I'm sure you've heard the anecdote "Never Say Never," let alone saying it 3 times in the same sentence!
It will happen when enough people demand it!
@Bugsnw... As for a built in kickstand, I'm with AppleStud on that one. Jobs would allow cockroaches before he'd allow it.
Actually it's your response here that makes you an idiot
I said "Apple is about making money for it's share holders by making products that run well for the idiotic masses"
Think about this for a second: Did I say using an Apple product makes you an idiot, or did I say Apple makes products that idiots can use?
I also read it the way he took it!! Your explanation doesn't really change things. Subliminal slip? or just poor gammer (jk) ;-)
1. Submit a bug report to Apple.
2. Make an appointment with an Apple Genius. You might even be able to get somewhere over the phone.
Most likely this is a bug in their software/hardware that needs an update to resolve. I say that because Apple has little interest in disabling their own hardware.
Why did they turn down the backlight time so drastically with 4.2? There's no setting for it that I can find. It turns off in 30 seconds or so. No sense in reading a PDF or admiring a picture for very long unless you keep touching the screen. Seems like a backwards step to me. It would have been cool if they added a feature to 'control' the backlight time instead of just dropping it off to preserve battery life...
Sorry, I should have said the Mac desktop beta. It is nowhere near Apple UI standards of refinement.
Beta=not ready for prime time incase you didn't know.