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."

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[Even on Slashdot FOE]

A company well known for releasing new models of its products will release a new model of one of its newest products! Gasp!

Also, will it have video-out capability yet? Or possibly video-in so I can use it to pretend I have a portable DVD player?

Re:Not a 2

[Glock27]

Actually the iPhone models were:

• iPhone
• iPhone 3G
• iPhone 3GS
• iPhone 4

So, Apple has been all over the place with its naming "conventions".

No DVD

[crow]

It is very unlikely that Apple would do anything to make it easy to put a DVD on the iPad. They want you to obtain content like that through the iTunes store. Anything they can do to help kill physical media is good for Apple.

Re:No DVD

[Arkham]

Actually it's quite easy to get a DVD movie onto an iPad.

1) Most movies come with "Digital Copy" now. Put the code in iTunes, and you are done.
2) For the ones that don't there's always Handbrake, which has presets for it and makes it trivial to convert in a few minutes. Once it's done, drag to iTunes and sync.

Re:No DVD

[iluvcapra]

it's not the best "technology" has to offer. It's the business "business" and "the law" want to offer us for now.

What part of my post, after the word "assuming," didn't you understand?

Without legal regimes to create copyrights, there'd be no mass media to buy content from, you'd have a high-speed no-physical-media perfectly-interoperable system to deliver the best content creators would have to offer under such a system, which would be:

• 30 second videos of cats peeing on things
• 1 minute Star Trek parodies (that go on far too long even at that)
• 5 minute screencasts showing you how to python script your word processor
• two-hour university lectures given by pointy-headed media academics who spend their whole lecture pompously asserting how advanced modern society is now that authors are unable to collect royalties, and how he's going to have to stop posting the videos unless more people stop auditing his class and start taking it for credit, because he's gotta eat.