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Shipping Windows on iPad Accessories Slipping as Pre-Orders Mount
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We won't know "for sure" until after they ship. However, your use case sounds like a MacBook (or any other laptop) would be a better fit.
I must have missed this part of the keynote. How exactly does this forcing work? What happens to people who don't want to buy these things? I was under the impression I was completely unobligated to purchase them.
I do hope so - it would mean you could use a USB keyboard, USB hard drive, USB GPS (if you got the non-G3 iPad) etc. Of course, Apple will probably have locked this down pretty tight.
I wonder if we'll at least get Bluetooth Keyboard support on the iPod touch and iPhone (since the iPad will apparently get it).
If including them meant raising the price and size of the unit for everyone, even those who don't want or need such functionality, then adding them as a separate accessory means they are only passing along the cost to those who want it. Having said that, it seems odd that there are two separate components to the camera kit... why not have one part that includes both USB and SD card input? What would be interesting is if someone--Apple or 3rd party--creates an add-on that includes a full range of traditional laptop inputs and outputs. If such a thing is even possible.
As long as I'm dreaming, somebody make a pressure sensitive stylus and drawing app for this as well. Oh, and let me attach it to my desktop to use it like a drawing pad, haha. Oh dear... I've gone off topic.
Mine still on time
I order the 3G 64 G version and the case for it.
The case is still listed as shipping by the 3rd and the iPad by end of April.
No delay on the case and no delay on the 3G unit so far.
I order the 3G 64 G version and the case for it.
The case is still listed as shipping by the 3rd and the iPad by end of April.
No delay on the case and no delay on the 3G unit so far.
I do hope so - it would mean you could use a USB keyboard, USB hard drive, USB GPS (if you got the non-G3 iPad) etc. Of course, Apple will probably have locked this down pretty tight.
I wonder if we'll at least get Bluetooth Keyboard support on the iPod touch and iPhone (since the iPad will apparently get it).
I'm really interested in what the hackers do with a jailbroken iPad. As it stands, USB/Bluetooth tethering is supported with jailbroken iPhone's, a jailbroken iPad might be phenomenal.
An iPad/writing tablet, what an excellent idea. Jailbroken perhaps, if not available from Wacom?
I like the idea of connecting the camera and do tethering, but I also like the idea of using the iPAD to check focus and adjust the shot using the touch capabilities.
If you want to compare that to Windows Bluetooth Keyboards, you would be lucky to find one under $100.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...MATCH&Description=bluetooth+keyboard&x=8&y=32
Wirelessly posted (SAMSUNG-SGH-A821/1.0 SHP/VPP/R5 NetFront/3.4 SMM-MMS/1.2.0 profile/MIDP-2.0 configuration/CLDC-1.1)
Still waiting for the MagicMouse to become available in retail stores in Australia. Maybe they will be in by the time the iPad launches here.
Still waiting for the MagicMouse to become available in retail stores in Australia. Maybe they will be in by the time the iPad launches here.
My preorders are all in except for that camera connection kit. It sounds like it was a last minute no-show. I had talked to Apple sales support the day preorders opened and the lady said that they had just found out that the camera connection kits were not available. i.e. last minute change.
You mean too close like....a laptop??
Well there is no mouse. It's a touch screen remember? You don't want it too far away. You gotta be able to touch it.
i'm sorry to be negative, but that keyboard dock for the iPad is the dumbest thing i've ever seen. why not just buy a netbook? ughhhhh the stupidity of that thing makes me crazy.
To me the keyboard/dock has got to be viewed as a home desktop accessory.
Too bulky for road warrior duty when a notebook offers the same functionality at a reduced footprint.
I agree.
I spent a couple of seconds wondering how Microsoft loaded windows onto the ipad accessories.
Isn't it obvious?
Apple designed the iPad without these particular ports. They don't want you using them. The shipping has been "delayed" because Apple wants users to get used to using the iPad how they are supposed to, not how they want to.