The document discusses Apple's decision to include a camera connection kit with the original iPad, allowing users to connect external accessories like card readers, hard drives, and wireless headsets via the iPad's 30-pin dock connector. However, the inclusion of this port went against Apple's goal of creating a wireless device, mirroring an earlier "problem" with the original iPhone's inclusion of physical buttons. The author argues that the iPad was rushed to market before wireless technologies had matured, forcing Apple to include the connection kit, but that such ports may not be needed on future iPads as wireless options improve.

1. Apple’s Irony of Fate

2. The problem is in the bottom! This stuff, right here… They are all having these keyboards, and control buttons, in plastic.

3. The buttons are the same for every app, though every app may want them slightly different, slightly optimized set of buttons.

5. … then iPhone was shown on that event in 2007… then 3 years passed and we have got iPad!

7. Card reader on iPad Camera Connection Kit

8. External HDD with iPad Camera Connection Kit External HDD

9. Strong Authentication on iPad Yubikey Camera Connection Kit

10. USB Wireless Headset on iPad Camera Connection Kit

11. WHAT IS THAT? CAMERA KIT?! IT SMELLS LIKE THOSE DAMN BUTTONS, WHETHER YOU NEED IT OR NO :-O

12. That slot is an… IRONY OF FATE Irony of fate…

13. Apple made similar problem with iPad, to that one, existed before iPhone…

14. Are they fools?? IMHO they are not. The only explanation is that iPad was forced too early to the market, before their (and others) wireless connectivity technologies got mature…

15. There will be no connection kit soon? Vasyl Mylko email: [email_address]