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<blockquote data-quote="Alan Shutko" data-source="post: 5616895" data-attributes="member: 23694">Why do you want to do that?Apple sells an adapter called the Apple Camera Connection Kit, which has been used by a lot of people to attach different USB devices to the iPad. Since the iPad doesn't let you view the filesystem (each app is sandboxed and seems to have its own filesystem) normal applications won't show anything on the thumb drive, but there are jailbreak apps that would let you do it.&nbsp; You might also be able to copy images off the thumb drive without jailbreaking, if that's all you want to do.At the moment, iTunes is required when you first open the iPad to activate it. When iOS 5 is released in the fall, that will no longer be required: you can work completely without a PC.To get music, videos, etc into the stock media players, you need to use iTunes as well. I think that will cease to be required when iTunes Cloud is released in the next few months. There are also tons and tons of apps in the app store that pretty much bypass the need to use Apple programs. I don't know much about them since I like Apple's software, but there's enough variety for everyone.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Alan Shutko, post: 5616895, member: 23694"] Why do you want to do that? Apple sells an adapter called the Apple Camera Connection Kit, which has been used by a lot of people to attach different USB devices to the iPad. Since the iPad doesn't let you view the filesystem (each app is sandboxed and seems to have its own filesystem) normal applications won't show anything on the thumb drive, but there are jailbreak apps that would let you do it. You might also be able to copy images off the thumb drive without jailbreaking, if that's all you want to do. At the moment, iTunes is required when you first open the iPad to activate it. When iOS 5 is released in the fall, that will no longer be required: you can work completely without a PC. To get music, videos, etc into the stock media players, you need to use iTunes as well. I think that will cease to be required when iTunes Cloud is released in the next few months. There are also tons and tons of apps in the app store that pretty much bypass the need to use Apple programs. I don't know much about them since I like Apple's software, but there's enough variety for everyone. [/QUOTE]

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