thumb drive to iPad (ios)

[bensisko]

No. There will always be flash plug in after. You will be amazed to see how many people still using floppy disk and CD drive these day.

I go all out a


Dude... I am all out against everything adaptor. With your mentality, Apple created a MacBook with just one USB C port. With your mentality, you need a adaptor for plug in your iPhone to MacBook Pro. I do not want and I believe most Poole do not want bring all these adaptors with them. You aren’t bring with the adaptor with you all the time.

I rather have devices with multiple ports than have one port. One port fits all never works. And no, adaptors suck.

With regarding of online storage. We are long from stable internet connection everywhere. Until then, I rather have my files stored locally. Plus, you know, I am sure some of you Apple fans will hate, these cloud storage provide will scan your files.

So, Adaptors are bad idea and online storage is bad idea as well.

Fine. You don’t like adaptors - I get it. Different opinions.

The fact of the matter is that solutions exist (if you like them or not is immaterial). You always have the choice to buy something from another company other than Apple.

Frankly I think you’re just here to argue. I don’t see any Apple device in your signature list of devices so I’m not sure why you care or are even on a site for Apple stuff.

 

[Pspressart]

I don't mean to poke holes in this debate, but there is really no need for physical media anymore, and Apple realized that, and so they do not make an effort to include access to these obsolete technologies in their new products.

Someone could argue that lack of access to a floppy drive would make an iPad not usable for their particular situation. Sounds like the OP's classes are a bit behind the times in their distribution methods. While that is obviously a real problem for some, Apple does not seem concerned about it when they design their new products. Instead, they seem to be of the opinion that they can push the world to modernize by not addressing these obsolete technologies. The best example I can think of is when they decided to not support flash on iOS, although I'm sure there is someone out there that misses the old "blue screen of death".

With wireless exchange methods like AirDrop, and internet exchange methods like FTP, email, and the available cloud services, there is really no need to use physical media.

I know I am replying to this a month later, but I can refute your statement about not needing physical media. My accounting firm received a subpoena from an entity that was sueing one of our clients. We had to provide various documents and the medium to deliver the documents was either a CD or a USB drive. No other delivery method was allowed. None of the methods you described above would have worked.

 

[ActionableMango]

Universities in Canada, at least, still use some website ulitizing flash for assignments.

Well they are going to need to change. Adobe, the creators of Flash, have themselves told people to stop using Flash since 2015, and instead switch to an open standard like HTML 5.

 

[LovingTeddy]

Well they are going to need to change. Adobe, the creators of Flash, have themselves told people to stop using Flash since 2015, and instead switch to an open standard like HTML 5.

Well...Not as easy as you would thought to. I am working at big corporation, we still have some DOS application for lots of things. Some government agency still use tape recorder for data storage.

Well... Even if Adobe decided to stop support Flash, Flash will still be supported by third party developers and I am sure plug in will available.

 

[ActionableMango]

Well...Not as easy as you would thought to. I am working at big corporation, we still have some DOS application for lots of things. Some government agency still use tape recorder for data storage.

Well... Even if Adobe decided to stop support Flash, Flash will still be supported by third party developers and I am sure plug in will available.

I think old processes are okay if they are internal. And in their own way they can actually be more secure, kind of like the Air Force using 9-inch floppies on a non-networked custom computer, and, well, also like Commander Adama on the Battlestar Galactica.

But the University is asking students to interact with technology that is on its last legs (or frankly, already dead). Flash is increasingly incompatible and it will be a tremendous security risk once Adobe no longer updates it. Heck, even when Adobe was updating it, it was considered one of the biggest security risks.

 

[pika2000]

Which is really a bunch of crap! What's the point of limiting a great device like that other than to screw one's customers? Sigh. Thanks for the reply.

Huh?
You needed a laptop but you bought an iPad, and you are blaming Apple?
Sell the iPad, get a laptop, problem solved. Why is this so difficult?

 

[andytiedye]

But where is the Lightning to OTG adaptor?

 

[Szczelec33]

So Apple is trying to market the iPad as a laptop replacement. Maybe in Cupertino, but in the real world, doesn't work that way.

As a cop, I go to several schools a year and in most classes, we get thumb drives of the class data, notes, power points, etc.

As my fellow students are pulling the data up on their laptops, I'm stuck playing with myself as the iPad obviously doesn't have a USB port. So, I started looking on Amazon and there really aren't many options that I can tell with seamlessly allows one to, at the very least, READ from a thumb drive. I'm I missing something here?

Thanks

I guess the next best solution is always email the power point presentation or files aroundand open them up on the iPad? Email is actually your best friend these days with online connections being so fast and email data limits becoming higher snd higher it is reslly like the new thing to be into lol for file transfer.
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Yes. It has its own network that you connect to from your iPad. The drive and its contents are visible using the FileHub app or by creating a connection to the FileHub in another file manager app.
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Any files work, it is not just a media device.
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Also, it's two-way in that you can both read from and write to the attached storage from the iPad.

So how would this work in a classroom setting? would the professor have to drag and drop files from his comouter into this network or could thr student do it without the professor as long as they make the files available for the whole class? Since you said read and write.