[OSX-Users] Re: ipad?

[Steve Harris]

Everyone seems to be complaining that there's no camera - honestly I  
couldn't care less.

That said, I don't really want an iPad right now anyway. I spend a lot  
of time reading email and documents at home, and if I didn't have a  
laptop around most of the time I might be tempted. If my laptop died I  
might be tempted to replace it with a couple of desktops and an iPad.

On the doc connector thing, my TomTom uses a mini-USB dock, and it's  
nowhere near as slick or reliable as the apple ones — the travel on  
the connector is too great. Micro-USB might be better though, not seen  
a micro-USB dock yet.

You'd also need a separate connector for video, audio, and USB-A as  
well, so micro-USB would suck as a solution in any case.

- Steve

On 28 Jan 2010, at 12:00, Hugh Glaser wrote:

> Ah yes.
> So the thing that is really missing is the camera.
> I guess that "they" just decide not to bundle some things.
> I can see the point from the taking pictures point of view - who  
> wants to
> take pictures with a crappy (by comparison) camera on a great big  
> thingy?
> Especially when I probably have a better one I have paid good money  
> for.
> But for video calling...
> It really pisses me off how crap the camera is on the iPhone - I  
> have a 3G
> one which is awful, and no flash. The 3GS isn't much better.
> Seems like they have a thing about cameras; is there a design document
> somewhere where Apple talks about these things?
>
>
>
> On 28/01/2010 11:20, "Julian Field" <sysjkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> It does have a speaker and a mic, and VOIP restrictions have been  
>> lifted
>> from the SDK and the App Store.
>> So you will be able to make VOIP calls on it.
>>
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