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Quote:

Originally Posted by pludi

...and the adapted iPhone OS still won't do multitasking.

Ouch... There's no excuse for a system with a 1GHz processor and multiple gigs of storage lacking multitasking.

Quote:

Originally Posted by andom

No usb? it has bluetooth, wifi and a dock connector. What do you need usb for?

Seriously? I was already eyerolling when Apple started making things that had only one USB port. My laptop has three and it's not enough. Let's see...

USB storage devices are utterly ubiquitous! Granted it has a USB add-on -- meaning Apple just shrank this with their usual tricks. Make the connector tiny and proprietary, then charge the customer extra to use something already built into their product. It also helps to reduce customer expectations -- a real USB port might be expected to support wireless devices and the like, but when they sell you the adapter that gives them the opportunity to warn you it only supports cameras. I suspect the speed might be questionable as well.
A Real Keyboard might be useful once in a while! Not whatever joke Apple wants to sell you -- a real keyboard, like you've always used.
How about a usb ethernet adapter? For those times when you must use a cable for whatever reason.
What if something breaks down? There are USB replacements for mice and any kind of wireless, none of which the ipad will likely ever support.

...Or something nobody's invented of yet. Wireless USB, ultra-wideband, or what have you. Normal PC's could support it through USB or add-on cards, but these wanna-be PC's never will. You might kick yourself for not waiting for the "newer" version.

Except there's always a newer version, that's how the Apple treadmill works. They make machines versatile and pretty enough to distract most customers from realizing they're only heart-stoppingly expensive disposables.

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lsusb

lsusb(8)							Linux USB Utilities							  lsusb(8)

NAME

       lsusb - list USB devices

SYNOPSIS

       lsusb [ options ]

DESCRIPTION

       lsusb is a utility for displaying information about USB buses in the system and the devices connected to them.

OPTIONS

       -v, --verbose
	      Tells lsusb to be verbose and display detailed information about the devices shown.  This includes configuration descriptors for the
	      device's current speed.  Class descriptors will be shown, when available, for USB device classes including hub, audio, HID, communi-
	      cations, and chipcard.

       -s [[bus]:][devnum]
	      Show only devices in specified bus and/or devnum.  Both ID's are given in decimal and may be omitted.

       -d [vendor]:[product]
	      Show only devices with the specified vendor and product ID.  Both ID's are given in hexadecimal.

       -D device
	      Do  not  scan  the /dev/bus/usb directory, instead display only information about the device whose device file is given.	The device
	      file should be something like /dev/bus/usb/001/001.  This option displays detailed information like the v option; you must  be  root
	      to do this.

       -t     Tells lsusb to dump the physical USB device hierarchy as a tree. This overrides the v option.

       -V, --version
	      Print  version information on standard output, then exit successfully.

RETURN VALUE

       If the specified device is not found, a non-zero exit code is returned.

FILES

       /usr/share/usb.ids
	      A list of all known USB ID's (vendors, products, classes, subclasses and protocols).

SEE ALSO

       lspci(8), usbview(8).

AUTHOR

       Thomas Sailer, <sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch>.

usbutils-0.73							  25 January 2005							  lsusb(8)