I agree, apart from the last one. The last one is something consumers will care about. That's why front-cams on iPhone 4 is promoted so heavily - people do care about that.
To a degree the last one is probably the weakest but I'm still not sure that the demand is there for a rear facing camera - I can see the front facing being of use with FaceTime etc but trying to keep a device weighing 1.5-1.6 pounds still to take good photo's I'm less sure of.
I wonder what's with the popularity.
Now that iOS is coming to the iPad, I'm rather enticed. I'll wait for the 2nd generation, where it'll hopefully serve as a standalone device, separate from a computer.
Pfft, everyone who wants one of these things already has one. Amiright guys?
Appealing products at reasonable price points tend to sell.
Now that the iPod Touch has a camera (actually two cameras), it safe to say then next rev of the iPad will have a camera/cameras too. I get the feeling Steve Jobs wants Facetime everywhere. $499 is still too steep for me. It'll be awhile before I jump on an iPad.
What were the most recent official iPad sales figures ?
I don't see a rear facing camera ever - this thing would look ridiculous held up as a camera - to hold this in one hand while touching the screen to take a picture/touch focus with the other would be awkward to say the least.
A front facing camera, maybe (as an optional extra) but you'd want the device on a stand, on a desk, to use facetime or the other person gets a shot straight up your nose. By the time you've done this, you might as well be on your laptop/desktop...
I agree. Cameras or a camera on the iPad would be absolutely ridiculous. And I'll be one of the first to say that face time will fade. I know almost nobody who uses it and almost nobody who uses such features on their computer either. I don't want to see people to talk to them on the phone. Maybe my lady friend, but that's all and infrequently.
Man these kills me jokes are killing me (pun always intended).
Lets compare the suicide rate to other companies that chain their workers to a desk 23 hours a day. One thing to remember, the penalty for killing yourself at Foxcon is extreme. I understand you lose three shifts pay and may or may not get time off to go to your own funeral.
The sad thing is, Apple works quite hard to insure there workers get the best treatment. It makes you wonder what the other companies do to their workers.
I wonder what's with the popularity.
Man, this Foxcon thing kills me (pun intended). The suicide rate at the Foxcon plant is LESS that the statistical average in the Chinese population. Conditions and jobs in the plant are good enough that LESS people want to kill themselves there than in the rest of China.
Great measure of the device's success. Mircrosoft will have a lot of catching up to do when they release a product again to compete.
I don't see why everyone thinks there is going to be a new iPad before the holidays though. Would not make sense with the current success to retool the factories that are only now catching up and prepping for the holiday demand. I think version two will be at the one year point. At the rate of growth, I don't think the current gen is quite obsolete.
And for all the comments about "fanboys" having to trade in their Gen 1 for Gen 2, so what if I trade mine in after one year. I spend more a month on Starbucks than the $60/month my iPad will have cost me after one year to own. I spend $60 in a single fill-up at the gas station. It is a very small piece of what I spend a month in overall costs of living. I pay far more for things that I enjoy and use far less. As with all things tech, there will always be a new update coming. You can sit on the side lines, always waiting for the newest, or you can enjoy the present.
This is insane.. 36 million Ipads in one year?!?! The economy is obviously not bad for a whole lot of people out there.
There goes any chance of buying any Apple product, again, again.A large number of people like them,as I do,and feel comfortable paying the current price to get one.Simple really.
Not every product fits everyone's needs/desires,though.
Reality check: Over 50% of the iPad sales come in from non-US soil....
Well we ARE at 90% employment in the US...
Reality check: Over 50% of the iPad sales come in from non-US soil.
But more importantly, Foxconn is in trouble. It won't only need to please Apple, but a couple of other companies as well. Now look at how many different Apple products it need to assemble, so tell me how should this work? I mean if Foxconn works on Apple products all day long, then they simply cannot work on anything else anymore!
I tell you this. What Foxconn does is to mass produce [assemble] a large number of iPad's and then it goes on to assemble another product. And that can't always be Apple [related]. That is simply impossible.
The real sad thing is that Apple management still thinks it's better to crank out as much hardware as possible out of China and ship it to the US than build hardware in the US.
The real sad thing is that Apple management still thinks it's better to crank out as much hardware as possible out of China and ship it to the US than build hardware in the US.
Maybe someday they'll learn.
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I heard people are working for less in Burkina-Faso anyway. They should move their plants over there.
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Or maybe I do.I don't think you realise how big Foxconn is.
That number doesn't mean anything since we here are only interested in production. What percentage do you think actually works on Apple products? Don't forget cleaning, maintenance, staff and all other jobs that take people away from real production work. And don't forget that many different people work on one single iPad – they are still folding boxes by hand!Last number I read was 380,000 employees.
For that to happen Foxconn need to employ another 500.000 people.The number of iPads built is a nice, big number for Apple, but for Foxconn, it is nothing. Well, not nothing, I nice fat contract that they would hate to lose, but nothing the company can't handle. Just think: If Foxconn has 380,000 employees, even if they built 38 million iPads a year, that would be 100 per employee.
I wonder what's with the popularity.