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iPad 2 Rumored to be in Production
Stoobalou writes "The normally sober and sometimes accurate Wall Street Journal is claiming that Apple's iPad 2 is currently in production. Foxconn might be producing a limited number of prototype samples of the Second Coming of the iPad but we're pretty sure full production won't start until Steve Jobs (or whoever will be donning the black turtleneck in his sickly stead) strides onto the stage at the official launch keynote."
A company well known for releasing new models of its products will release a new model of one of its newest products! Gasp!
A company notorious about being tightlipped on new stuff in development can't trust their Chinese partner company and gets scooped by the Grey Lady.
It's slashdot news-worthy.
The Gray Lady typically refers to the New York Times. The Wall Street Journal is the Gray Lady's psychotic older sister.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
The iPad 1 already has video out. You just had to buy the necessary adapter. You could also use AirPlay.
The iPad 1 already has video-out: http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC552ZM/A
It only works with certain apps, but you definitely can do presentations and such on a 50" screen, from your iPad.
I ripped all of my DVDs onto iTunes and I easily sync them up to my iPad. I'm not sure your point has merit. I've got King Kong, Ikuru, and 40 Year-Old Virgin (a terrific, Slashdot-inspired documentary BTW) on there right now. The parent post is equally without merit, since Apple and all manner of 3rd party suppliers sell video out cables for both iPhone and iPad. Last time I went back to CT, I played Matrix on my mother's TV for her straight from my iPhone with this: Apple Composite AV Cable
Actually, no one in the world wonders, nor cares, why you don't use Apple products. The iPad can do HDMI-out.
None of your listed fears reasonably apply to iTunes content.
You might be missing the point. Say he went to a hotel for a stay and wanted to watch something on his iPaid on the TV in the room without paying some silly $10 charge. Connect the cable and watch. Where is that modern, 21st century home digital network with the TV allowing you to use wireless to connect? Hint: It isn't there in the hotel.
How is that a coherent argument?
If you are at a hotel, you can use AirPlay just as you can at home, with an AppleTV. If the hotel TV doesn't have HDMI, you can use analog connections directly from the iPad. If the hotel TV doesn't have digital *or* analog connections, how is that a problem with the iPad?
And that's all within the very unusual circumstance of being in a hotel and wanting to hook video up to a TV. If that were the biggest problem with the iPad (that it for some reason couldn't video-out to hotel TVs) it would hardly be much of a thing to complain about for most people.
You are right, he might be missing the point. The point isn't that there's anything wrong with the iPad, the point is to just complain.
A few hours battery life reading? What kind of reading were you doing? I borrowed an iPad for a month and the average time between charges was a week if I was just reading. If I was watching a video or surfing the web a lot, it was a few days. It wasn't my iPad so I don't know how well the owner took care of it but it seemed to have decent battery life for me. It doesn't last weeks like a Kindle will but then again you can't do all the other stuff on a Kindle so that's a trade-off
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