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Also in a business context you need them to play displays on screens at conferences usually.
And students I imagine will frequently use them to print documents at the library, or design students at the print shop
In my experience all of this has been done wirelessly for several years.
The risk of malware means you aren’t allowed to plug in sticks. For business use you share a document or wirelessly connect to a display.
In fact our local library didn’t USB sticks eight years ago when I was researching our family tree.
Depends. on a 3x3 booth setup with just a screen on a pole with no connectivity - you don't want to run a cable to a laptop because you're using the table for product demos
Don’t mean this rudely, struggling to find a way that doesn’t sound condescending because I know things can be different in different regions. Didn’t realise that still happened.
I think it "just depends" - not trying to dox myself here but at cloud provider conference at Caesars forum, las vegas in summer of last year this was the setup we had.