Steve de Mena <st...@stevedemena.com> wrote: > -hh wrote: > > 'Edwin' still has a due-out to provide the citation of the Make/Model/ > > price for an adaptor that will allow me to (ignore the laws of Physics > > and) fit a CF card into the SD card slot on my current Thinkpad. > > > Now that I think about it, I think that the Sony VAIO laptop that I > > used to have had the same problem: its built-in slot was for Sony's > > proprietary memory card, not CF or SD. > > > So how is having a built-in card reader a 'good thing' when it is the > > wrong card type format? > > > -hh > > Tell me that is not some sort of justification for not including a > card reader?
Its a criticism directed at an industry that lacks a common standard, which functionally makes it impossible for any interface provider to provide "just the right one". As such, the only options n that *ALL* builders have to contend with is to provide an overly large ("Sixty- Five in One") Jack-of-All-Trades compromise, or an incomplete solution.
As long as there is no single standard, they are assured that they can _never_ make all their customers happy.
