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iPad Enclosure Has Empty Space for Camera?
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Only closed minded morons think this way.
There are people out there who can afford to buy Rev A then upgrade to Rev B & beyond, while doing a hand me downs to fellow family members. Especially, people who love their gadgets.
+1....they just don't know
IMO the usefulness of a camera will be due more to clever 3rd party apps than to iChatting. Apps like Delicious Library, or ones that take your picture and then incorporate it into the app in some novel way will probably provide more utility than videoconferencing. iChat is cool, don't get me wrong, but I honestly rarely use it despite having the ability to do so.
hey, nice excuse.... I can't wait to see what you'd say when they release that gen 2
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You're in denial. If iPhone OS 4.0 comes out it will be at WWDC 2010 in June.After the iPad is being sold with iPhone OS 3.2
Developers would need to get ahold of 4.0 before anything came out.
I question the 4.0 stuff. To go from 3.2 to 4.0 is a big step.
I won't be getting (soon), but my prediction is that the camera version will be introduced just in time for this year's Christmas shopping season. People with v1 who need the camera will "gift" their v1 units to nieces and nephews, and will upgrade to v2 (which will increase the number of iPads buying apps. And those people who waited will ask loved ones for v2 as presents.
The interesting question will be.... once the camera enabled version is introduced will Apple continue to sell the non-camera version?
I think they will discontinue the non-photon-capturing units because the pricing grid gets really messy otherwise.
Just my totally uninformed thinking....
The interesting question will be.... once the camera enabled version is introduced will Apple continue to sell the non-camera version?
I think they will discontinue the non-photon-capturing units because the pricing grid gets really messy otherwise.
Just my totally uninformed thinking....
Totally, video conferencing requires multitasking. These require OS 4.0. OS releases are previewed in March. OS 4.0 will be unveiled before the iPad is launched.
Videoconferencing will have iChat Theatre, so you can browse the web with a friend! (Or do a Keynote Presentation to them...)
iPad will have a camera. People will go crazy for this thing.
Absolutely. Apple wants to further create buzz for the iPad, and I'll bet money what we get come March is more than what's been shown.
Don't know if it'll be something as significant as an added hardware feature, but they're not going to let it go on sale without some other type of press release.
The iPhone had it's glass screen and youtube, and I suspect(hope) Apple will do something similarly for the iPad. I personally don't care about a camera, but my one major gripe is lack of multi-tasking!
Oh, I completely agree I do it every weekend with siblings living in the U.K. My fear is it being mainstreamed to mobile devices - knowing that most people have poor etiquette when it comes to them.
I feel certain that iPhone OS 4.0 will be released mid year. It gets unveiled in March each year.
The iPad will ship with 3.2 in March, hopefully with a camera of limited use with that release. If it ships with a camera, 4.0 will bring the videoconferencing features.
I see this being said all the time and I call hogwash. If you are doing a webcam chat you will be looking at the screen, thus people will not be looking up your nose. Also most people will be holding it about 45 deg. up from their lap. Who would lay the pad on their lap and hold a video chat and not look at the screen but look straight ahead ?
Your correct, but just try photo booth with video running, and place macbook screen where the ipad would sit, and you will see what I am saying.
Either way, your holding it with your hands, which means it moves way to much.
exactly!
Remember when headsets were first released & people were wearing them & everyone looking at them all funny? Then some of them had the amazed look when they realized you were talking into a wired or wireless headset.
+1....they just don't know
Try to keep up, Sparky:
Ya know, call me silly, but...
... having a USB form factor plug -- for the express purpose of uploading photos from a camera -- doesn't necessarily imply that the USB plug is 100% USB-specification compliant. That is, it doesn't mean that USB devices which need powered through the USB will be powered, right? (After all, does the 30-pin connector even support supplying power to an external device? It supports charging the iPad/iPod, but not necessarily supplying power out, right?)
In other words, having a USB dongle won't necessarily mean support (in hardware or software) for all classes of USB devices.
this is quite a curiosity. there must be at least one logical reason for apple to have left out the camera in this model. after all, it is such an obvious feature to include in such a device.
This is certainly interesting...I'm hoping that they somehow deliver this on the first generation iPad.
As of right now its for cameras, but yes the dock connector does support power out, thats how my bluetooth unit is powered.
But apple would be crazy to not let this thing print to a printer.
If you watch the 720p keynote on youtube you can see a flicker in the centre of the iPad's top bezel as Job's shows it to the crowd for the first time. You can see it glint in the light at 9:05. Likely, it is nothing more than the ambient light sensor, but there is something there and I don't doubt Apple was playing with a camera at one time.