USB On The Go - where are the products?
The USB 2.0 standard enables you to connect any two USB enabled devices and let them communicate. The key here is neither of the devices needs to be a computer. This means you should be able to plug your camera right into your external harddrive, and without any clicking, booting up, typing in or other messing around, have all you photos backed-up. This wonderful feature/capability is called “USB On The Go”.
Maybe I am wrong, but the appeal of having a storage unit that I can plug my camera and video camera into without the need to go near a PC seems huge. I want a NAS that simply sucks files from my devices. I can then later edit/alter/view them on a PC if I wish, but I want files taken from my devices with the same ease I put electricity into them. However, the industry doesn’t seem to agree with me, as I cannot find any mainstream prodoucts making use of USB On The Go. Why is this? Is it a conspiracy by PC manufacturers, or are the storage product people just very conservative. Whatever the answer, please consider me officially in the queue for a storage appliance that ‘pulls’ data from my digital devices.
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I think this technology will be passed over and it’ll move straight to wireless sucking … so to speak. Here I think it’s an easier sell for the device manufacturers. I can see you arriving home, switching on your camera and it asking you if you want to transfer your files and then you say yes and you’re done. Wires have to be on their way out, surely??!!