Rubbish cameras on iPad make it an expensive upgrade

[Carouser]

Apple chooses to put in minor incremental upgrades to keep us on an annual leash. They could easily pack a gig of ram, 5 megapixel camera, etc. But they choose not to. Because now, that would be bad for their business forecast.

While other companies are out trying to pack in the latest and greatest (1 gig of ram, 5 megapixel camera, etc.) Apple would rather give us the bare minimum just so they can "wow" us every year.

Congratulations you know nothing about the economics of making 50 million devices or running a billion-dollar company.

The iPad 2 and its components are obviously sufficient to meet some consumers' ideas of 'value for their money'. You don't like the camera, big deal.

Apple doesn't make anybody buy its products; other companies are free to try to do better.

Have fun barfing in your own mouth fanboy fanboy rabble rabble

 

[swy05]

Congratulations you know nothing about the economics of making 50 million devices or running a billion-dollar company.

The iPad 2 and its components are obviously sufficient to meet some consumers' ideas of 'value for their money'. You don't like the camera, big deal.

Apple doesn't make anybody buy its products; other companies are free to try to do better.

Have fun barfing in your own mouth fanboy fanboy rabble rabble

I think Reverend Jobs is calling his flock for another meeting. You should go now.


And you just proved the first sentence in my initial post.

Well played.

 

[dmk005]

Look, it's easy to hyper analyze decisions made by companies delivering retail electronics at the feature/function/marketing level without looking at the results as a major component of your position.

The truth for most successful companies in the same market as Apple is that marketing is equally important to specs and customer satisfaction ranks a close second (which is closely connected to marketing). As of today, Apple marketing is eating the breakast, lunch and dinner of most of it's competition, regardless of the actual specs of iPad 2.

Camera good or camera bad, iPad 2 is a winner because the full complement of technological innovation, material and design engineering and product marketing are all in sync and the buying public are enthusiastically paying attention with wallets open. To be anxious or angry over this or any individual technical disappointment only serves to find too many holes in Swiss cheese.

I only hope the competition well as it is only then that the hyper drive towards innovation occurs and then we all stand to gain.

 

[InternetDude08]

The camera isn't really meant for taking print-quality pictures. I skipped the iPad 1 because I didn't want the first version out. I'm using it as a web browser that I can use anywhere in my house so a crappy camera doesn't bother me.