@Oflife: bluetooth would mean that the 'storage device' would need it's own power supply, which combined with the bluetooth hardware would push the price up a fair bit.
Part of the reason that USB sticks have become commonplace is that they're cheap. People don't want to pay through the nose for a device that's purpose is just to shunt files around.
Anyway, if (generally, not specifically regarding connecting to a phone) you want to render the standard USB stick obsolete, bluetooth is hardly the way to go. It's fiddly, it requires pairing/connecting, most devices can only be paired to one other device at a time (not phone so much, think headsets, speakers etc) making it ill-suited for use as a go-between for other devices. In the long run, it will some sort of cloud-based system will eventually render USB sticks superfluous, not some minor variation to the same basic principle.
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Why not dispense with cables and use Bluetooth? Someone go make nice pocket sized Bluetooth storage thingi.
@Oflife Flashdrives don't have bluetooth.
@Broderbund I said, "Someone go make nice pocket sized Bluetooth storage thingi." 'thingi' referring to a storage device of some sort.
@Oflife: bluetooth would mean that the 'storage device' would need it's own power supply, which combined with the bluetooth hardware would push the price up a fair bit.
Part of the reason that USB sticks have become commonplace is that they're cheap.
People don't want to pay through the nose for a device that's purpose is just to shunt files around.
Anyway, if (generally, not specifically regarding connecting to a phone) you want to render the standard USB stick obsolete, bluetooth is hardly the way to go. It's fiddly, it requires pairing/connecting, most devices can only be paired to one other device at a time (not phone so much, think headsets, speakers etc) making it ill-suited for use as a go-between for other devices.
In the long run, it will some sort of cloud-based system will eventually render USB sticks superfluous, not some minor variation to the same basic principle.
@Oflife
you will lose the pleasure of plugging something in, and i guess nobody wants that!