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Would a CD slot been too much for the iPad?

Would a CD slot been too much for the iPad?

  • Yes too much, don't need it...

    Votes: 257 94.5%

  • Not at all, I would like to see a CD slot in the future...

    Votes: 15 5.5%
  • Total voters
    272
There will probably always be a need, or at least a desire, for a physical medium that you can put files on and hand someone in a throwaway fashion, as opposed to loaning them a portable drive. But I think it'll become less omnipresent.

I don't think the OP's question is all that insane. It happens to not be feasible due to size/weight/battery life, but I've seen a lot of worse questions here.
 
CDs are on the way out. 5 years from now you wont be buying discs anymore. It will be all flash drives with DRM encrypted media on them. Tvs will have USB ports which will eliminate the need for a 3rd party player. Thats my prediction of the future.
 
ARF900 said:
CDs are on the way out. 5 years from now you wont be buying discs anymore. It will be all flash drives with DRM encrypted media on them. Tvs will have USB ports which will eliminate the need for a 3rd party player. Thats my prediction of the future.
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Let's make a bet shall we?

Flash drives not being able to be stamped is a major flaw in your argument
 
ARF900 said:
CDs are on the way out. 5 years from now you wont be buying discs anymore. It will be all flash drives with DRM encrypted media on them. Tvs will have USB ports which will eliminate the need for a 3rd party player. Thats my prediction of the future.
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I think you are shooting behind the duck. For all practical purposes, physical media is obsolete already... but it will take a few years (maybe ten) before it shrinks to near oblivion. As Negroponte said over a decade ago... molecules are being replaced with bits. Optical media is not immune from this phenomenon.

/Jim
 
flynz4 said:
I think you are shooting behind the duck. For all practical purposes, physical media is obsolete already... but it will take a few years (maybe ten) before it shrinks to near oblivion. As Negroponte said over a decade ago... molecules are being replaced with bits. Optical media is not immune from this phenomenon.

/Jim
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Sony is just now preparing to shutter its last floppy disk plant. So if that is any guide, I think you are correct that we are at least a decade away before CDs and DVDs become virtually irrelevant.
 
They should have included a clamshell keyboard, a track pad on top of the CD/DVD drive. Oh and an ethernet slot, two usbs ports, and an sd card would be great additions to the ipad.
 
wombat888 said:
There will probably always be a need, or at least a desire, for a physical medium that you can put files on and hand someone in a throwaway fashion, as opposed to loaning them a portable drive. But I think it'll become less omnipresent.

I don't think the OP's question is all that insane. It happens to not be feasible due to size/weight/battery life, but I've seen a lot of worse questions here.
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Why not do it over the Internet? Hell, my mom and her sister in germany share files and both of them don't even know how to use a computer.

As for CD in iPad...why? What would you need the CD for that can't be done via streaming from the PC, put in dropbox, mobileme, so on?

I don't even know if people still buy music CDs.

Also...do you really want a spinning CD inside an ipad that you're holding with your hand? Makes no sense.
 
Agincourt said:
No, none of these would have been too much for the ipad. Get rid of the dock and you could equip ALL of these.

THAT'S what would get me to buy it.

And if you can fit a camera to a NANO, you can fit one on an oversized ipod touch!
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I should not even dignify this with a response.... But I will anyway. You sir... Are an idiot. If you dislike the iPad so much, why in God's name are you spending time on a forum about it? You are one of those that just wants to hate it because you are too cheap to go buy one... Nobody cares what would get you to buy it. I think the only feature that would get your stupid ass to buy this is if they had a built in penis enlarger.... God knows you need one.

Wow I feel better now. I just love when people don't own a product and yet they still feel they should be online reviewing it.
 
The only thing that might prove useful is a filesystem and support for flash drives. It would be easier to get files on and off the device without going through iTunes for everything. Heck, make it read-only and/or support only a few types of files. I don't want to go to iTunes for every single thing.
 
i don't even want the optical drive on my iMac! I think Apple should take out the optical drives with the next refresh and just enable all macs to use the macbook air superdrive for the occasional disc drive needs.

with large HDDs these days, what use is a movie DVD anymore? I'd like to just go online, download the ISO images of DVDs, mount a virtual drive and do it that way!
 
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