>  The iPad is not being marketed as a laptop. Why are you expecting it to 
> be?

I think the issue is that nowadays everyone expects anything the size of the 
iPad with a screen to support a number of standard features.  These include 
a USB socket for connection to external drives: memory sticks, card readers, 
cameras, printers etc.  TBH this was the first I heard that you cannot 
connect any standard external devices to the iPad, I would have assumed it 
had a USB socket.  It does has WLAN and/or bluetooth right?  Can't you just 
share folders from another device that way?  A bit inconvenient if you have 
a passive device like a memory stick or MP3 player.

>  Do you buy an XBox360 and expect it to be a PC? There are similarly many
> thing that can be done with a PC that cannot be done with an XBox360.

The PS3 OS actually gives you the option to install a Linux OS if you want, 
and the Xbox360 lets you write programs for it using C# and XNA, so it those 
respects modern games consoles pretty much are PCs.

Anyway, if I did buy an XBox360 I would expect it to do certain things as 
standard, like let me connect a memory stick and listen to the music on it 
or look at the photos and videos on it.  Or grab files from the network to 
show.  There's a huge user outcry even when some specific format of video is 
not supported by a games console, imagine what would happen if it didn't 
support *any* external connection!

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