The lack of a camera was a seriously incompetent move by apple, especially considering that they've placed one in the Nano, which has none of the potentials for use like the iPad.
I'm sorry, but this is 2010, I've rarely seen a cell phone without a camera since 2000. Apple has even pioneered placing them in devices that have no need as a gimmick. So someone at Apple HQ was having serious brain farts when they decided to let the iPad go to production without even a single camera in it.
The iPad requires a self-portrait camera for video chat and the ever popular self-pic, but it also needs a camera for taking pictures and recording the environ.
holding that giant ipad up with two hands to take a picture of something seems kind of awkward. an iphone or ipod nano can easily be steadied in one hand to take a picture.
I was going to say that it would only be a little awkward, but then I remembered once again that I'm not representative of their target market. It's certainly an issue.
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The lack of a camera was a seriously incompetent move by apple, especially considering that they've placed one in the Nano, which has none of the potentials for use like the iPad.
I'm sorry, but this is 2010, I've rarely seen a cell phone without a camera since 2000. Apple has even pioneered placing them in devices that have no need as a gimmick. So someone at Apple HQ was having serious brain farts when they decided to let the iPad go to production without even a single camera in it.
The iPad requires a self-portrait camera for video chat and the ever popular self-pic, but it also needs a camera for taking pictures and recording the environ.
holding that giant ipad up with two hands to take a picture of something seems kind of awkward. an iphone or ipod nano can easily be steadied in one hand to take a picture.
I was going to say that it would only be a little awkward, but then I remembered once again that I'm not representative of their target market. It's certainly an issue.
Awkward? It seems almost hostile.
My guess is that you won't see a camera until the device gets on Verizon LTE and one can do two-way video. AT&T just can't handle the bandwidth.
You seem pretty sure Apple is filled with incompetent idiots that all, en mass, decided not to deploy a camera on the iPad.
I wholeheartedly agree with your entire statement. I was just making this same point earlier today to someone.
The iPod Touch should have a camera by now as well! Yet somehow the nano got one first.