Especially if POE or USB loading were included, it might make the wire more accepted... I can only speak from personal experience - I've had this for about a month and a half now, and have not found the lack of USB to be an issue. I can email pics and videos from my phone and receive them on my iPad, and/or I can sync using iTunes. iTunes isn't the perfect product, but it works.
Other than the multi-tasking, there hasn't been much I haven't been able to do with this.
