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If you use a pump with a fixed head then you can rest the wheel against a vertical object (fence post for e.g.) with the pump head against said object - this makes it very easy to pump with gay abandon as you don't need to resist your own mighty pumping force, ending up red in the face but ultimately unsatisfied.
With a hose'd pump you can't do this, or rather it's harder as the hose emerges from the part of the pump you'd need to rest against the fence post/wall/stile/etc.